Johann Christian Albers (also Johann Christoph Albers; 13 March 1795, Bremen – September 1857, Stuttgart) Google Books Moniteur des dates: Contenant un million de renseignements biographiques was a German medical doctor and malacologist.
During his career, he served as Medicinalrath and Regierungsrath in Berlin.Bibdigital.rjb Imagenes As a zoologist, he was the taxonomic authority of the land snail family OrthalicidaeGBIF Orthalicidae and of numerous land snail genera, including: Napaeus, Diaphera, Amphidromus, Scutalus, Drymaeus and Opeas. Animalbase List of all taxa, sorted by author.
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).HathiTrust Handbuch der Nervenkrankheiten
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).WorldCat Identities
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