Johann Christian Albers

{{short description|German physician and malacologist}}

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| birth_date = 13 March 1795

| birth_place = Bremen, Holy Roman Empire

| death_date = September 1857

| death_place = Stuttgart

| nationality = German

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| occupation = Physician and malacologist

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Johann Christian Albers (13 March 1795, Bremen – September 1857, Stuttgart) [https://books.google.com/books?id=6RSDefEcyTAC&pg=PA11 Google Books] Moniteur des dates: Contenant un million de renseignements biographiques was a German physician and malacologist.

During his career, he served as Medicinalrath and Regierungsrath in Berlin.[http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/Imagenes/F(4)ASC_Syn_5_1/ASC_Syn_5_1_276.pdf Bibdigital.rjb] Imagenes As a zoologist, he was the taxonomic authority of the land snail family Orthalicidae[https://www.gbif.org/species/126937841 GBIF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411055308/http://www.gbif.org/species/126937841 |date=2017-04-11 }} Orthalicidae and of numerous land snail genera, including: Napaeus, Diaphera, Amphidromus, Scutalus, Drymaeus and Opeas.[http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/list/taxa?sorted_by=author&x_opt=ALBERS 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).[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008598889 HathiTrust] Handbuch der Nervenkrankheiten