Johannes Govertus de Man, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johannes Govertus de Man

Dutch zoologist

Date of Birth: 02-May-1850

Place of Birth: Middelburg, Zeeland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 19-Jan-1930

Profession: zoologist, botanist, carcinologist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Johannes Govertus de Man (May 2, 1850 in Middelburg – January 9, 1930 in Middelburg), was a Dutch biologist.
He was assistant curator at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (Dutch for national natural history museum) in Leiden, where he specialised in free-living nematodes and decapod crustaceans, although he also wrote papers on flatworms, sipunculids and, in his dissertation only, vertebrates.
His change away from vertebrates disappointed the director of the museum, and de Man left his job there after eleven years.
For the rest of his life, de Man worked at his parents' house in Middelburg and later at a house near the shore at Yerseke in the Oosterschelde estuary, relying on his family's private income.