Johann_Christian_Albers

Johann Christian Albers

Johann Christian Albers

German physician and malacologist

Johann Christian Albers (13 March 1795, Bremen – September 1857, Stuttgart) [1] was a German physician and malacologist.

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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]

References

  1. [1]
    Google Books Moniteur des dates: Contenant un million de renseignements biographiques
  2. [2]
    Bibdigital.rjb Imagenes
  3. [3]
    GBIF Archived 2017-04-11 at the Wayback Machine Orthalicidae
  4. [4]
    Animalbase List of all taxa, sorted by author.
  5. [5]
    HathiTrust Handbuch der Nervenkrankheiten
  6. [6]
    WorldCat Identities
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