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

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=6RSDefEcyTAC&pg=PA11 Google Books
  2. http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/Imagenes/F(4)ASC_Syn_5_1/ASC_Syn_5_1_276.pdf Bibdigital.rjb
  3. https://www.gbif.org/species/126937841 GBIF
  4. http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/taxa?sorted_by=author&x_opt=ALBERS Animalbase
  5. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008598889 HathiTrust
  6. http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87-134748 WorldCat Identities