Johann Christian Albers

Johann Christian Albers
Born(1795-03-13)13 March 1795
Bremen, Holy Roman Empire
DiedSeptember 1857(1857-09-00) (aged 62)
Stuttgart
OccupationsPhysician and malacologist

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

During his career, he served as Medicinalrath and Regierungsrath in Berlin. As a zoologist, he was the taxonomic authority of the land snail family Orthalicidae and of numerous land snail genera, including: Napaeus, Diaphera, Amphidromus, Scutalus, Drymaeus and Opeas.

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).

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