Johannes François Snelleman was a Dutch zoologist, orientalist, ethnographer and museum director
Background
He was a son of Christiaan Snelleman and Sara Lacombe. The expedition, organised by the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society, was led by lieutenant Johannes Schouw Santvoort, Royal Dutch Navy, with members Doctor of Divinity Veth (son of KNAG chairman PJ Veth) and A.L.
Career
Was married three times, to Josepha Hendrika Dupont (1860-1899), Catharina Johanna Elisabeth Augusta Inckel (born 1870), and Theodora Maria Beun (b 1887). van Hasselt. In the (late?) 1880s and 1890s, was curator of the Museum voor Volkenkunde National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden. In 1901 was appointed director of the Ethnologisch Museum (Ethnological Museum) in Rotterdam (later named Museum voor Landen Volkenkunde and currently Wereldmuseum Rotterdam) and the Maritiem Museum "Prins Hendrik" (Maritime Museum "Prince Hendrik") in that city.
These two, thematically unconnected museums, were placed under a single directorship in 1885.
He kept this position until early 1915, when he took his retirement due to ill-health.