Albinus

Albinus, Bernhard (Siegfried Albinus, 1697-1770), son of a professor of medicine; having settled with his father in Leiden, he studied medicine; then he went to Paris, where he intensively studied anatomy and surgery. In 1719 he received an invitation from the University of Leiden to take the position of lecturer and was awarded an honorary doctorate. Two years later, A. was already an ordinary professor of anatomy and surgery; in his inaugural speech he gave a detailed program and indicated the direction in the study of anatomy, which has not lost its significance to this day. Together with Boerhaave, A. republished in 1725 the works of Vesalius, providing them with an interesting preface and supplementing them with a number of new tables. In 1737 - the complete works of Fabricius, in 1744 - the anatomical tables of B. Eustachius, also with significant additions to the text and illustrations. Based on his own research, he published "Libellus de ossibus" (1726) and "Historia musculorum" (1734). His research on the development of the fetal skeleton is extremely valuable; the main works of this outstanding anatomist, highly valued by A. Haller: "Tabulae sceleti et musculorum" (1747) and "Tabulae vasis chyliferi cum vena azygos" (1757).