Editing Emil Theodor Kocher (section)

=== Personal life ===
In 1869, Kocher married Marie Witschi-Courant<ref name="hildebrandt2012"/><ref group="note">Several alternative spellings to Marie Witschi-Courant exist, for example
 Maria Witschi (ref hls),
 Witchi (ref choong2009),
 Witchi-Cournant (ref tan2008),
 Maria Witschi but in letters "Marie" (ref: [http://katalog.burgerbib.ch/deskriptordetail.aspx?ID=137721 Descriptor]</ref> <!-- see talk page, section Name_and_person_info_of_his_wife --> (1841–1921)<ref name="choong2009"/><ref name="www.nobelprize.org"/> or (1850<ref name="bonjour1981"/>–1925).<ref group="note">The Bernese Burgerbibliothek give 1850–1925 as her living years and also Bonjour 1981 writes (pg 86) that she was nineteen in 1869 but does not give a date of death</ref> She was the daughter of Johannes Witschi, who was a [[merchant]],<ref name="hls"/> and she had three sons together with Kocher. The Kochers first lived at the Marktgasse in Bern and moved in 1875 to a bigger house in the Villette. The house became a place for friends, colleagues and guests to gather and many patients from Kocher's clinic were invited to dine at the Villette.<ref name="bonjour1981"/>

Like his mother, Kocher was a deeply religious man and also part of the [[Moravian Church]]. This was an uncommon trait that not many colleagues and co-workers shared and until his death, Kocher attributed all his successes and failures to God. He thought that the rise of [[materialism]] (especially in science) was a great evil, and he attributed the outbreak of the [[First World War]].<ref name="bonjour1981"/>

Kocher was involved in the education of his three sons and played tennis with them and went horseback riding with them.<ref name="bonjour1981"/> The eldest son Albert (1872–1941)<ref name="www.nobelprize.org"/> would follow him to the surgical clinic in Bern and become Assistant Professor of Surgery.<ref name="tan2008"/>

On the evening of 23 July 1917, he was called into the Inselspital for an emergency. Kocher executed the surgery but afterwards felt unwell and went to bed, working on scientific notes. He then fell unconscious and died on 27 July 1917.<ref name="bonjour1981"/>