Johann Joseph Peyritsch
Johann Joseph Peyritsch (20 October 1835 – 14 March 1889) was an Austrian physician and
botanist born in Völkermarkt
.
In 1864 he earned his medical doctorate from
Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, and in 1878, succeeded Anton Kerner von Marilaun as professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck, a position he maintained until his death in 1889.[1]
He was editor of
aroids, Aroideae Maximilianae, and with Theodor Kotschy (1813–1866), was co-author of Plantae Tinneanae, a book describing flora collected on the Tinne
expedition to Sudan.
As a taxonomist, he described numerous plants from the botanical families Celastraceae and Erythroxylaceae.[2] In the field of mycology, he held a special interest in the fungal order Laboulbeniales. The plant genus Peyritschia from the family Poaceae was named in his honor by Eugène Pierre Nicolas Fournier in 1881.[1] Then in 1890, Roland Thaxter named a fungal genus Peyritschiella (in the family Laboulbeniaceae) after him.[3]
References
- ^ a b BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ IPNI Plants described and co-described by Peyritsch
- ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Peyr.
Other sources
- Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen by Jan-Peter Frahm & Jens Eggers, (biography in German)
- [1] International Aroid Society, The Botanical Art of Schott's Aroideae Maximilianae
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