Snellens: plural of Snellen - A surname:
Snellen is a Dutch surname.
Snel means "quick" in Dutch and the original bearer of the name may have been a lively person. However, the origin of the surname often was patronymic, as Snel and Snelle were short forms of the archaic Germanic given name Snellaard (which originally meant "lively and strong").
People with this surname include:
Herman Snellen (1834–1908), Dutch ophthalmologist who introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity (1862).
He took over directorship of the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients (Nederlandsch Gasthuis voor Ooglijders), after Franciscus Donders.
Ignas Snellen [fr; nl] (born 1970), Dutch astronomer
Johan Snellen [nl] (1642–1691), Dutch Naval Officer
Maurits Snellen [de; nl] (1840–1907), Dutch meteorologist and explorer of the Arctic
Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen (1834–1911), Dutch entomologist.
Pieter Snellen was a merchant in Rotterdam.
He is not to be confused with Samuel Constantinus
Snellen van Vollenhoven, another entomologist from Rotterdam.
Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven (1816–1880), Dutch entomologist.
He was curator of the
entomological collections for the Natural History Museum, Leiden from 1854 to
1873, when he retired due to health problems.
In 1857 he founded
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, a journal of systematic and evolutionary
entomology published by the Netherlands Entomological Society.
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