Johann Abraham Albers

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Johann Abraham Albers ( portrayed by Georg Friedrich Adolph Schöner in 1813 )

Johann Abraham Albers (born March 20, 1772 in Bremen , † March 24, 1821 in Bremen) was a German doctor and obstetrician .

biography

Albers was the seventh of twelve children of the Bremen businessman Johann Christoph Albers and his wife Maria Catharina Retberg and went to school (Carolinum) in Braunschweig . From 1789 to 1795 he studied human medicine in Göttingen and Jena , where he came into contact with Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , and received his doctorate in Jena on ascites in 1795 . After graduating, Albers went to Marburg , Vienna , London and Edinburgh .

From 1797 he settled in his hometown of Bremen, where he opened a practice as a city ​​physician and obstetrician. He married Marie Wilhelmine Retberg in Bremen on February 20, 1799, thereby strengthening the family ties between the Albers and the Retbergs, since his father had married a Retberg too. The couple had a total of 8 children, three of which, however, as was common in those days, died in childhood.

The term argyria goes back to Albers , which he introduced in 1816. Albers is also known for his studies in croup . Albers conducted extensive correspondence with domestic and foreign colleagues. He gathered a group of interested colleagues who translated foreign specialist articles into German. In 1802 he founded a journal called Americanische Annalen der Arzneykunde, Natural History, Chemistry and Physics, which twice a year was supposed to give German readers an insight into the research of that time in the USA and was dedicated to the American President Thomas Jefferson . The magazine only appeared three times, however, due to the Napoleonic wars , the publication had to be discontinued. In 1803 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . The Bavarian Academy of Sciences elected Albers in 1808 as a corresponding member of its mathematical-physical class.

Fonts (selection)

  • Observations on a change of color in the skin, produced by the internal use of the nitrate of silver . In: Medico-surgeon. Trans. , 1816, 7, p. 284.
  • History of a case of angina polyposa or croup, which terminated successfully under the use of calomel and emetics . Poor. Med., 1801, 5, p. 384.
  • American Annals of Pharmacy, Natural History, Chemistry, and Physics . 1802.
  • Price question, what actually consists of the evil known as the so-called voluntary limping of children . J. Geistinger, Vienna 1807.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ In addition, William F. Bynum: Johann Abraham Albers (1772-1821) and American Medicine . In: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , Volume 23, Issue 1, January 1968, pp. 50-62.
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 25.
  3. ↑ Member entry by Johann Abraham Albers (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Albers, Johann Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and obstetrician
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1821
Place of death Bremen