Johann Christian Albers

Johann Christian Albers
Born	13 March 1795 Bremen, Holy Roman Empire
Died	September 1857 Stuttgart
Nationality	German
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]

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. 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
6. WorldCat Identities