Maximilian Perty
Born
Maximilian Perty

(1804-09-17)17 September 1804
Died8 August 1884(1884-08-08) (aged 79)

Josef Anton Maximilian Perty (17 September 1804, Ornbau – 8 August 1884, Bern) was a German naturalist and entomologist. He was a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Bern.[1] His first name is sometimes spelled as "Joseph".

He studied natural sciences and medicine in Landshut, earning his medical doctorate in 1826. Afterwards, he obtained his PhD at Erlangen with a thesis on a previously unknown species of beetle,[1] and in 1831 became privat-docent of zoology and general natural history at the University of Munich. From 1833 to 1876, he was a professor at the University of Bern.[2][3]

He conducted investigative studies of arthropods collected by Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius from an expedition in Brazil.[1][3] In 1862, the botanical genus Pertya was named in his honor by Carl Heinrich "Bipontinus" Schultz.[2]

Works

The standard author abbreviation Perty is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[4]

Collections

Perty's collections are divided between the University of Bern and the Zoologische Staatssammlung München

References

  1. ^ a b c d Deutsche Biographie biography
  2. ^ a b BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  3. ^ a b c ADB:Perty, Maximilian @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  4. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Perty.
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