Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini

Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini (31 August 1729, Ohrdruf – 27 June 1778, Berlin) was a German physician, translator and conchologist.

[1] In 1769, he began the colour-illustrated shell book Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, published by Gabriel Nikolaus Raspe at Nürnberg.

Because these volumes did not use the binomial system, the species names introduced are not considered valid.

[4] His shell collection was sold after his death but is now lost, probably deliberately disposed of in the 1970s.

[4] In 1773, Martini founded the Berlinische Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde, consisting of a group of natural historians who visited each other's collections and built up a collection for the society.