Johann Christian Albers

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Johann Christian Albers
Born13 March 1795
Bremen
DiedSeptember 1857
Stuttgart
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Physician and malacologist

Johann Christian Albers (13 March 1795,

malacologist
.

During his career, he served as Medicinalrath and Regierungsrath in

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