Christiaan Bernhard Albinus (20 March 1698/19 March 1699 – 5 April 1752) was a German-Dutch anatomist, son of the anatomist

Bernhardus Albinus Bernhardus Friedrich Albinus (7 January 1653, Dessau – 7 September 1721, Leiden) was a Dutch physician and anatomist. His sons Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770) and Friedrich Bernhard Albinus (1715-1778) were also anatomists of note in L ...

and brother of the brother of

Bernhard Siegfried Albinus Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (originally Weiss; 24 February 16979 September 1770) was a German-born Dutch anatomist. He served a professor of medicine at the University of Leiden like his father Bernhard Albinus (1653–1721). He also published ...

(1697–1770) and

Frederick Bernhard Albinus Friedrich Bernhard Albinus or Frederik Bernard Albinus (20 June 1715 – 23 may 1778) was a Dutch anatomist. He was the fourth and youngest son of Bernhardus Albinus, and succeeded his brother Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770) at the Universi ...

(1715–1778). He served as a professor of anatomy at the

University of Utrecht Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

. Albinus was born in Berlin and studied at the University of Leiden. He received his medical degree in 1772 and was appointed the next year in the University of Utrecht, becoming a professor there in 1724. He was involved in producing a second edition of William Cowper's anatomic atlas. He left anatomy in 1747 to become a magistrate in Utrecht. His publications include: * '' Specimen inaugurale natomicumexhibens nova teniuium hominis intestinorum descriptionem'' (Leiden, 1722; repr, 1724) *
Oratio inauguralis de anatome prodente errores in medici
' (Utrecht, 1723) alternate title ''De anatome errores detegente in medicina'' * Edited: William Cowper,
The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, With Figures Drawn After the Life by Some of the Best Masters in Europe etc.
' (Leiden, 1737).

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