Josef Anton Maximilian Perty was a German naturalist and entomologist.
Education
He studied natural sciences and medicine in Landshut, earning his medical doctorate in 1826. Afterwards, he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy 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.
Career
He was a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Bern. His first name is sometimes spelled as "Joseph". From 1833 to 1876, he was a professor at the University of Bern.
He conducted investigative studies of arthropods collected by Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius from an expedition in Brazil.
In 1862, the botanical genus Pertya was named in his honor by Carl Heinrich Bipontinus Schultz.
Membership
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.