Maximilian Perty

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Max Perty

Josef Anton Maximilian Perty (born September 17, 1804 in Ornbau , Kingdom of Bavaria , † August 8, 1884 in Bern , Switzerland ) was a Bavarian, German entomologist and natural philosopher at the University of Bern.

Life

Perty moved to Munich as a child (1807) . He attended high school in Munich and Tölz . He moved to Landshut to study science and medicine . In 1824 he became a member of the Isaria Corps . In 1826 he was at the University of Landshut to Dr. med. PhD . He didn't want to be a general practitioner, but a natural scientist.

When the university was relocated from Landshut to Munich in 1827, he worked for the conservator and natural philosopher Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert in the zoological and zootomic collection of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , which later became the Munich State Zoological Collection . He worked on the insects that Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826) had collected on a trip together with Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius between 1817 and 1820 in Brazil. Perty described 622 species of insects, including 308 species of beetles. At first he worked without, later with low pay, but without a permanent job. Perty was supported by Martius, but still did not get the longed-for position in the academy. But he gave lectures for young zoologists. Habilitated in 1831 , was now able to give lectures as a private lecturer . At the end of 1833 he moved to Bern , where he became full professor at the newly founded University of Bern in 1834 . Perty published, among other things, on rotifers (rotatoria), infusoria , beetles (Coleoptera) and bees.

Honors

Fonts

  • Delectus Animalium Articulatorum quae in itinere per Brasiliam Annis MDCCCXVII - MDCCCXX Iussu et Auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae Regis Augustissimi, percato collegerunt Dr JB de Spix et Dr. CF Ph. De Martius , 1830–1834 ( digitized version )
  • Observationes nonnulae in Coleoptera Indiae orientalis , Munich 1831 (habilitation thesis)
  • About the greater importance of the natural sciences and their position in our time. An academic opening speech , Bern 1835 ( digitized version )
  • General natural history as a philosophical and humanities science , 1837–1846 (digital copies: 1st volume 1837 , 2nd volume 1838 , 3rd volume 1843 , 4th volume 1846 )
  • Knowledge of the smallest forms of life , 1852 ( digitized version )
  • Basics of Ethnography , Leipzig and Heidelberg 1859 ( digitized version )
  • The mystical appearances in human nature Leipzig 1861 ( digitized version ), 2nd edition 1872 (2 volumes)
  • The reality of man's magical powers and effects defended against his adversaries. A supplement to the author "Mystical Appearances of Human Nature" , 1863 ( digitized version )
  • On the soul life of animals , Leipzig and Heidelberg 1865 ( digitized version ), 2nd edition 1876
  • Nature in the light of philosophical outlook , Leipzig and Heidelberg 1869
  • Glimpses into the hidden life of the human spirit , Leipzig and Heidelberg 1869 ( digitized version )
  • Present spiritualism and related past and present experiences. A supplement to the author "Mystical Appearances of Human Nature" , 1877 ( digitized version )
  • Memories from the life of a natural scientist and soul researcher of the 19th century , Leipzig and Heidelberg 1879

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Maximilian Perty  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 111 , 95
  2. ↑ Member entry of Joseph Anton Maximilian Perty at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 23, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Perty, Maximilian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perty, Josef Anton Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th September 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Ornbau , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1884
Place of death Bern