Josef Anton Maximilian Perty (17 September 1804, Ornbau – 8 August 1884,

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) was a German naturalist and

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. He was a professor of zoology and

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at the University of Bern.Deutsche Biographie
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, earning his medical doctorate in 1826. Afterwards, he obtained his PhD at Erlangen with a thesis on a previously unknown species of beetle, 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.BHL
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He conducted investigative studies of arthropods collected by

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and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius from an expedition in Brazil. In 1862, the botanical genus '' Pertya'' was named in his honor by

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Works

*''Observationes nonnulae in Coleoptera Indiae orientalis'', München (1831). *''Delectus Animalium Articulatorum quae in itinere per Brasiliam Annis MDCCCXVII – MDCCCXX Iussu et Auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis Augustissimi, percato collegerunt Dr J. B. de Spix et Dr. C. F. Ph. de Martius''. (1830-1834). *''Zur Kenntniss kleinster Lebensformen: nach Bau, Funktionen, Systematik, mit Specialverzeichniss der in der Schweiz beobachteten. pp. 1-228, pls I-XVII. Bern: Verlag von Jent & Reinert. *''Die mystischen Erscheinungen in der menschlichen Natur''. Leipzig, (2. Auflage 1872, 2 Bände) (1861). *''Über das Seelenleben der Tiere'' (Leipzig und Heidelberg, 2. 1865: new edition 1876). *''Die Natur im Licht philosophischer Anschauung'' (Leipzig und Heidelberg) (1869). *''Erinnerungen aus dem Leben eines Natur- und Seelenforschers des 19. Jahrhunderts'' (Leipzig und Heidelberg) (1879).

Collections

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

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References

German naturalists German entomologists Dipterists 1804 births 1884 deaths German taxonomists Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty People from Ansbach (district) 19th-century German zoologists {{Germany-zoologist-stub