Johann Sebastian Albrecht

Johann Sebastian Albrecht (born June 4, 1695 in Coburg ; † October 8, 1774 ibid) was a German doctor and naturalist.

Albrecht studied medicine in Jena and Leiden from 1715 and received his doctorate in Jena in 1718 after a trip through Switzerland, the Netherlands and northern Germany, during which he met many scholars. After that he was a resident doctor in Coburg. In 1734 he became a professor of natural philosophy at the academic high school in Coburg and in 1737 Land Physikus (state doctor for the Principality of Coburg).

Numerous smaller writings and contributions to the Commercium Litterarium come from him. In 1747 in Coburg he published the Opuscula botanico-physicua by Joachim Jungius .

On December 15, 1730 he was elected a member ( matriculation number 418 ) of the Leopoldina with the academic surname Panthemus .

Albrecht is a forerunner of palaeobotany with a report from the year 1737 on fossil woods that were found in large quantities in Coburg and used for carving . He saw signs of rot in the trunks and features of recent trees. In 1734 he published an essay in which he saw fossils as witnesses to the Flood .

Individual evidence

^ Biography after Susanne Grosser: Doctors' correspondence in the early modern period. The correspondence between Peter Christian Wagner and Christoph Jacob Trew. De Gruyter 2015, p. 286
^ Member entry by Johann Sebastian Albrecht at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 15, 2015.
↑ Klaus-Peter Kelber: The preservation and paleobiological significance of the fossil wood from the southern German Keuper (Triassic, Ladinium to Rhätium). In: H. Schüßler, T. Simon (Hrsg.): Wood becomes stone - pebble wood from the Keuper Franconia. 2007, p. 37

personal data
SURNAME	Albrecht, Johann Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Panthemus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German doctor and naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 4, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH	Coburg
DATE OF DEATH	October 8, 1774
Place of death	Coburg

[1] Biography after Susanne Grosser: Doctors' correspondence in the early modern period. The correspondence between Peter Christian Wagner and Christoph Jacob Trew. De Gruyter 2015, p. 286

[2] Member entry by Johann Sebastian Albrecht at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 15, 2015.

[3] Klaus-Peter Kelber: The preservation and paleobiological significance of the fossil wood from the southern German Keuper (Triassic, Ladinium to Rhätium). In: H. Schüßler, T. Simon (Hrsg.): Wood becomes stone - pebble wood from the Keuper Franconia. 2007, p. 37