Christiaan Bernhard Albinus

Christiaan Bernhard Albinus (1698 or 1699 to 1752) was a German-Dutch anatomist who served as a professor of anatomy at the University of Utrecht. He belonged to a family of anatomists: his father was the anatomist Bernhardus Albinus, and his brothers were Bernhard Siegfried Albinus and Frederick Bernhard Albinus. Born in Berlin, he studied at the University of Leiden and was appointed to Utrecht, becoming a professor there in 1724. He helped produce a second edition of William Cowper's anatomical atlas, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, published at Leiden in 1737. His published works include an inaugural dissertation on a new description of the human intestines and an oration on anatomy exposing errors in medicine. In 1747 he left anatomy to become a magistrate in Utrecht.