Johann Christian Albers


Johann Christian Albers 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" with the title "Handbuch der Nervenkrankheiten".

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