Friedrich Wilhelm Martini
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Germany
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physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
and conchologist
Conchology
Conchology is the scientific or amateur study of mollusc shells. Conchology is one aspect of malacology, the study of molluscs, however malacology studies molluscs as whole organisms, not just their shells. Conchology pre-dated malacology as a field of study. It includes the study of land and...
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Martini who practised in Hamburg
Hamburg
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began, in 1769 , the richly colour illustrated shell book: Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet. But he died after the publication of the third volume. His work was continued by Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz
Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz
Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz was a German clergyman and a conchologist.He continued the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Martini , Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet...
(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.