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 Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (originally Weiss; 24 February 16979 September 1770) was a Germany, German-born Netherlands, Dutch anatomist. He served a professor of medicine at the Leiden University, University of Leiden like his father Bernhardus ...

(1697–1770) at the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange as a Protestant institution, it holds the distinction of being the oldest university in the Neth ...

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. .) was a Dutch chemist, botanist, Christian humanist, and ph ...

, his brother Bernhard and Hieronymus David Gaubius. 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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Albinus, Friedrich Bernhard 1715 births 1778 deaths 18th-century Dutch anatomists Academic staff of Leiden University