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".

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 fossilMalacografia Maderensis, 1854.