caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality fields birth_date alt known_for image article_title name
mattheus marinus schepman 19 november 1919 bosch en duin , netherlands rhoon , netherlands dutch malacology 17 august 1847 black and white portrait of a man with beard collecting and taxonomy mattheus marinus schepman.png mattheus marinus schepman
 mattheus marinus schepman
mattheus marinus schepman

mattheus marinus schepman -lrb- 17 august 1847 -- 19 november 1919 -rrb- was a dutch malacologist .
he was one of the foremost collectors of mollusc shells in the netherlands , and was also high on the overall list of european collectors .
dutch collectors developed an interest in natural history specimens that were collected on worldwide expeditions since the 1500s .
an interest in conchology led to numerous shell publications .
in 1934 the nederlandse malacologische vereniging -lrb- netherlands malacological society -rrb- was founded .
in commemoration of its 75th anniversary , a book honoring in detail the work of mattheus schepman was published .
