Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz

Johann Chemnitz continued the work of Friedrich Wilhelm Martini (1729–1778), Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet.

Chemnitz used many specimens from the cabinet of curiosities of the king of Denmark whose conservator was Lorenz Spengler (1720–1807).

[3] The fifth volume describes and portrays many shells from New Zealand and some from Australia collected during Cook's voyages into the Pacific.

Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz is an enormous work published from 1837 up to 1920 with nearly hundred sections, including some 4000 plates.

[4][5] Chemnitz was a promoter of a form of natural theology known as testaceotheology or the use of molluscs for preaching.