Snellen is a
Dutch surname
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. ''Snel'' means "quick" in
Dutch
Dutch or Nederlands commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
** Dutch people as an ethnic group ()
** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
** Dutch language ()
* In specific terms, i ...
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").
Snellaard
at the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands People with this surname include:
* Herman Snellen
Herman Snellen (, February 19, 1834 – January 18, 1908) was a Dutch ophthalmologist who in 1862 introduced the Snellen chart to study visual acuity. He took over directorship of the Netherlands Hospital for Eye Patients (Nederlandsch Gasthuis ...
(1834–1908), Dutch ophthalmologist
* (born 1970), Dutch astronomer
* (1642–1691), Dutch Naval Officer
* (1840–1907), Dutch meteorologist and explorer of the Arctic
* Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen
Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen (30 August 1832 – 29 March 1911) was a 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 ...
(1834–1911), Dutch entomologist
* Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven
Samuel Constant Snellen van Vollenhoven (18 October 1816, Rotterdam – 22 March 1880) was a Dutch entomologist. He is not to be confused with Pieter Cornelius Tobias Snellen another entomologist from Rotterdam.
He was curator of the entomologic ...
(1816–1880), Dutch entomologist
See also
* Snellen chart
A Snellen chart is an eye chart that can be used to measure visual acuity. Snellen charts are named after the Dutch ophthalmologist Herman Snellen who developed the chart in 1862 as a measurement tool for the acuity formula developed by his profe ...
, an eye chart developed by Herman Snellen
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Dutch-language surnames
Patronymic surnames