Johannes François Snelleman
Johannes François Snelleman was a Dutch zoologist, orientalist, ethnographer and museum director. He was a son of Christiaan Snelleman and Sara Lacombe. Snelleman was married three times, to Josepha Hendrika Dupont, Catharina Johanna Elisabeth Augusta Inckel, and Theodora Maria Beun.
Expeditions and publications
Between 1887 and 1889 Snelleman participated as zoologist in a scientific expedition to Central Sumatra, with the objective to map the Hari River basin to do research into the natural environment and the people. The expedition, organised by the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society, was led by lieutenant Johannes Schouw Santvoort, Royal Dutch Navy, with members D.D. Veth and A.L. van Hasselt. Snelleman wrote a book about the expedition.After the Sumatra Expedition Snelleman and Veth senior and junior kept a close contact. During a later KNAG expedition in Angola in 1884/'85, D.D. Veth died of exhaustion. Together with his father P.J. Veth, Snelleman wrote a book about D.D. Veth and the expedition in South West Africa. Later, Snelleman would cooperate in a book series published by Veth, and titled Java, geographisch, ethnologisch, historisch.
In 1892, he co-authored Industrie des Cafres du sud-est de l'Afrique on Southeast African collections in the Netherlands with Hendrik Muller.
Snelleman was editor of the four volume Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië, started in 1896 with P.A. van der Lith as sole editor. Snelleman cooperated with Van der Lith on volume two and became joint editor for volume three. After the death of Van der Lith in March 1901, Snelleman completed the final volume as sole editor.
Together with H.D. Benjamins, Snelleman published the With the same Benjamins, Snelleman started the journal :nl:De West-Indische Gids in 1919.