Johann Christian Albers

Johann Christian Albers
Born13 March 1795
Bremen, Holy Roman Empire
DiedSeptember 1857
Stuttgart
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)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]

  1. ^ Google Books Moniteur des dates: Contenant un million de renseignements biographiques
  2. ^ Bibdigital.rjb Imagenes
  3. ^ GBIF Archived 2017-04-11 at the Wayback Machine Orthalicidae
  4. ^ Animalbase List of all taxa, sorted by author.
  5. ^ HathiTrust Handbuch der Nervenkrankheiten