Johann Christian Albers Explained
| Johann Christian Albers |
| Birth Date: | 13 March 1795 |
| Birth Place: | Bremen, Holy Roman Empire |
| Death Date: | September 1857 |
| Death Place: | Stuttgart |
| Nationality: | German |
| Occupation: | Physician and malacologist |
Johann Christian Albers (13 March 1795, Bremen – September 1857, Stuttgart) [1] was a German physician and malacologist.
During his career, he served as Medicinalrath and Regierungsrath in Berlin.[2] As a zoologist, he was the taxonomic authority of the land snail family Orthalicidae[3] and of numerous land snail genera, including: Napaeus, Diaphera, Amphidromus, Scutalus, Drymaeus and Opeas.[4]
In the field of medicine, Albers published an edition from Karl August Wilhelm Berends' "Vorlesungen über die praktische Arzneiwissenschaft" ("Lectures on practical medical science") with the title "Handbuch der Nervenkrankheiten" (1840).[5]
Principal works
- Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet, 1850 - The helicids by natural affinity, arranged systematically.
- Malacographia Maderensis sive enumeratio molluscorum..., 1854 - Malacography of Madeira, or an enumeration of the mollusks of the islands of Madeira, both living and fossil
- Malacografia Maderensis, 1854 (Italian publication).[6]
Notes and References
- https://books.google.com/books?id=6RSDefEcyTAC&pg=PA11 Google Books
- http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/Imagenes/F(4)ASC_Syn_5_1/ASC_Syn_5_1_276.pdf Bibdigital.rjb
- https://www.gbif.org/species/126937841 GBIF
- http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/taxa?sorted_by=author&x_opt=ALBERS Animalbase
- http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008598889 HathiTrust
- http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87-134748 WorldCat Identities
