Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini
Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini (31 August 1729,Ohrdruf – 27 June 1778, Berlin) was a German physician, translator and conchologist.
Martini who practised medicine in Hamburg began, in 1769, the richly colour illustrated shell book: Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet published by at Nürnberg. But he died after the publication of the third volume. His work was continued by Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz (1730–1800) who added eight volumes between 1779 and 1795. Even though the work does not use the binomial system both are considered the authors of the new species figured.[1] He was a Member of Berlinische Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde.
References[]
- ^ (1966). Shell Collecting. An Illustrated History. Faber and Faber (Londres), 344 pp.
External links[]
- BHL Digital Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet
- BHL Typescript index to Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet
- Zoologica Göttingen State and University Library Digital Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet
Categories:
- Conchologists
- 18th-century German physicians
- 1729 births
- 1778 deaths