Johann Christoph Albers (malacologist)

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Johann Christoph Albers (born March 13, 1795 in Bremen , † September 27, 1857 in Stuttgart ) was a German physician, botanist, veterinarian 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 medicine at the University of Göttingen from 1812 to Michaelis 1814 and became a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . During the Wars of Liberation he served as a medical officer in a Prussian unit. After further studies at the University of Berlin and the doctorate to Dr. med. 1816 in Göttingen worked from 1817 first as a district physician in Allenstein and from 1820 at the district government in Gumbinnen . During the Prussian cholera epidemic in 1830/31 he was in charge of a cholera hospital in Berlin.

Veterinary School Berlin 1841

In 1832 Albers became a teacher of forensic veterinary medicine and veterinary police at the veterinary school in Berlin, founded in 1790 . From 1838 to 1849 Albers was director with the title of a Royal Secret Medical Council director of this college, which later became the veterinary college . During his term of office in 1841, Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse inaugurated the three-storey late classicist main building of the veterinary school at Luisenstrasse 56, which was built by Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse as a " teaching and residential building " and is still used today by the Humboldt University as part of the north campus.

Retired in Heidelberg from 1849 on, he devoted himself increasingly to his biological and zoological research interests with numerous species-describing publications. A geographical focus is his research on the fauna of the island of Madeira . He died in Stuttgart on a trip.

Honors

In the Berlin Museum of Natural History at Invalidenstrasse 43, a plaque commemorates him as a sponsor of this museum.

Fonts

  • Commentarius de diagnosi asthmatis Millari strictius definienda. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1817.
  • with Ernst Horn and Stephan Friedrich Barez: Cholera archive using official sources.
    • Volume 1, Enslin, 1832.
    • Volume 2, Enslin, 1832.
    • Volume 3, Enslin, 1833.
  • Royal Animal Medicine School: History of the Royal Animal Medicine School in Berlin: together with a description of its previous achievements and current constitution; Invitation to the celebration of the inauguration of the newly built veterinary school building and the 50th anniversary of the institution on February 2, 1841. Berlin around 1841.
  • Veterinary police and [judicial] veterinary science after lectures by Dr. Albers. Berlin 1839. (handwritten lecture notes by Kühnert, winter semester 1839/40; archive of the Free University of Berlin)
  • History of the Royal Animal Medicine School in Berlin including a description of its previous achievements and current constitution. Berlin 1841.
  • Malacographia Maderensis. 1854.
  • The helices, arranged systematically according to their natural relationship by J. Chr. Albers. 2nd Edition. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1860. (2nd edition edited by Eduard von Martens )

literature

  • Victor Carus :  Albers, Joh. Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 180.
  • Caspary: Life descriptions of East and West Prussian botanists. In: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Prussian Botanical Association. Königsberg i.Pr. 1912, pp. 189–290 (pp. 189/190)
  • Gerhard Wagenitz : Göttingen biologists 1737–1945. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1988, p. 17.
  • Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera to Göttingen. Volume 1: 1809-1899. Göttingen 2002, no.149
  • Barbara Dettke: The Asian Hydra. The cholera of 1830/31 in Berlin and the Prussian provinces of Posen, Prussia and Silesia . De Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-11-014493-X . (Preview on GoogleBooks)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albers in a portrait of the Free University of Berlin ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed March 3, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bib.vetmed.fu-berlin.de
  2. ^ Johann Christoph Albers: History of the Königliche Thierarzneischule zu Berlin , Berlin 1840 S. 18 and situation plan
personal data
SURNAME Albers, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, botanist and malacologist; Director of the Berlin Veterinary School
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1857
Place of death Stuttgart