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 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 ...

, and succeeded his brother

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) at the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...

as professor of anatomy. Albinus was born in Leiden where he was educated. Matriculating in literature in 1731, he went to Leiden University and studied mathematics and philosophy under

Willem 's Gravesande Willem Jacob 's Gravesande (26 September 1688 – 28 February 1742) was a Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher, chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics and the first experimental m ...

; botany under Adriaan van Royen; and medicine under

Herman Boerhaave Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738Underwood, E. Ashworth. "Boerhaave After Three Hundred Years." ''The British Medical Journal'' 4, no. 5634 (1968): 820–25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20395297.) was a Dutch botanist, ...

, his brother Bernhard and

Hieronymus David Gaubius Hieronymus David Gaubius (24 February 1705 – 29 November 1780) was a German physician and chemist. Life He was a native of Heidelberg. He studied medicine and sciences at the Universities of Harderwijk and Leiden, where he was a pupil of Herm ...

. Receiving a doctorate in 1740 he became a physician in Amsterdam. In 1745 he became a lecturer in anatomy at the University of Leiden and in 1770 he replaced his brother as professor of human physiology after 1770. His most important work was '' De natura hominis libellus'' (1775) which included works by his deceased brother. Other publications included: * ''De meteoris ignitis'' (Leiden, 1740) * ''Dissertatio medica inauguralis de deglutitione'' (Leiden, 1740) * ''De amoenitatibus anatomicis'' (Leiden, 1745) * ''De causis dissensionum inter anatomices'' (Leiden, 1748) * ''De praestantia chirurgiae'' (Leiden, 1755) * ''De amictus noxis'' (Leiden, 1767) * ''De ambulatione, eaque utili, et necessaria, et jucunda'' (Leiden, 1771)

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