[1] Born in Stuttgart in 1831, von Martens attended university in Tübingen, where he graduated in 1855.

[2] When the expedition returned to Europe in 1862, von Martens continued to travel around Maritime Southeast Asia for 15 months.

ii, consisting of 447 pages and 22 plates, contained a very full account of the land molluscs.

Back in Berlin, von Martens was curator of the malacological and other invertebrate sections until his death.

Besides his work on Mollusca, von Martens wrote upon all branches of zoology, but especially upon Crustacea and Echinoderms..