Johann Christian Albers
Johann Christoph Albers ( born March 13, 1795 in Bremen, † September 27, 1857 in Stuttgart) was a German physician, botanist and malacologist.
Life
Albers was a son of the Bremen merchant and later painter Anton Albers the Elder and his wife Johanna Sophia Thorbecke. He studied from 1812 to 1814 Michaelis medicine at the University of Göttingen and became a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen. During the liberation war, he served as a staff physician in a Prussian unit. After further studies at the University of Berlin and the MD thesis in 1816 in Göttingen was in 1817 first as a district physician in Olsztyn and in 1820 at the District Government in Gumbinnen active. During the Prussian cholera epidemic 1830/31 he led in Berlin a cholera hospital.
1832 Albers became a teacher of Forensic veterinary medicine and veterinary police, which was founded in 1790 Veterinary School in Berlin. From 1838-1849 Albers Director was awarded the title of Royal Secret Medizinalrats director of this university, and later the University of Veterinary Medicine emerged from the. During his tenure, the inauguration of the Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse falls built three-storey late classical teaching building in the street Luis 56 as an extension of the Veterinary School in 1841, is still preserved and is now used by the Humboldt University as part of the North Campus.
From 1849 retired in Heidelberg, he devoted himself increasingly to his biological and zoological research interests with numerous types of descriptive publications. A geographic focus is on his studies on the fauna of the island of Madeira. He died in Stuttgart on a trip.
Honors
In the Berlin Museum of Natural History in the disability Straße 43 is a memorial plaque to him as a supporter of the museum.
Writings
- Commentarius de diagnosi asthmatis Millari strictius definienda. Cambridge University Press, 1817.
- With Ernst Horn and Stephan Friedrich Barez: Cholera archive with use of official sources. Volume 1, Enslin, 1832.
- Volume 2, Enslin, 1832.
- Volume 3, Enslin, 1833.
- Malacographia maderensis. In 1854.
- The Heliceen, after natural relationship systematically arranged by J. Chr Albers. 2nd edition. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1860. (2nd edition edited by Eduard von Martens )