{{Short description|German naturalist and entomologist (1804–1884)}} {{Infobox artist | image = Josef Anton Maximilian Perty.jpg | birth_name = Maximilian Perty | birth_date = {{Birth date|1804|09|17|df=y}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1884|08|08|1804|09|17|df=yes}} }}

'''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.<ref name=ND>[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz94729.html Deutsche Biographie] biography</ref> His first name is sometimes spelled as "Joseph".

He studied natural sciences and medicine in Landshut, earning his medical doctorate in 1826. Afterward, he obtained his PhD at Erlangen with a thesis on a previously unknown species of beetle,<ref name=ND/> and in 1831 became privat-docent of zoology and general natural history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. From 1833 to 1876, he was a professor at the University of Bern.<ref name=BH>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189656#page/200/mode/1up BHL] Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications</ref><ref name=AD>[http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Perty,_Maximilian ADB:Perty, Maximilian] @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie</ref>

He conducted investigative studies of arthropods collected by Johann Baptist von Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius from an expedition in Brazil.<ref name=ND/><ref name=AD/> In 1862, the botanical genus ''Pertya'' was named in his honor by Carl Heinrich "Bipontinus" Schultz.<ref name=BH/>

==Works== *''Observationes nonnulae in Coleoptera Indiae orientalis'', München (1831).<ref name=ND/> *''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, (2nd edition 1872, 2 vols.) (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).<ref name=AD/>

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

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