> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 216](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33189687) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/7614-1) LSID 7614-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6216038) QID Q6216038 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Peyritsch, Johann Joseph (1835-1889), Austrian botanist, especially plant teratologist; Dr. med. Wien 1864; naval physician at Pola 1864-1866; from 1866-1871 connected with the Vienna general hospital; from 1871-1878 at the Natural History museum ("2. custos"); habil. Univ. Wien 1874; professor of botany at Innsbruck (successor to A. Kerner) 1878-1889; especially interested in plant teratology and Laboulbeniales. **Abbreviated name**: *Peyr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Peyr.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection IB|IB]]; diary 1880-1888 (Tirol, Vorarlberg) in mss. also at [[Collection IB|IB]]. See Magnus (1894) for a list of P's fungi at [[Collection IB|IB]]. Other material in [[Collection M|M]] (via Radlkofer). Correspondence with D.F.L. von Schlechtendal at [[Collection HAL|HAL]]; further letters at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Note Peyritsch was born 20 Oct 1835 at Völkermarkt, Kärnten; on the same day and in the same region was born Hubert Leitgeb (Portendorf, Kärnten). P. died 14 Mar 1889 at Gries nr. Bozen, Leitgeb died 5 Apr 1888 at Graz. #### Bibliography and biography AG 6(1): 861; Ainsworth p. 237, 346; Barnhart 3: 77; Blunt p. 248; BM 4: 1560; Bossert p. 308; CSP 4: 864-865, 8: 609, 11: 1-2, 17: 834; DTS 1: 223-224; Frank (Anh.): 76; GF p. 70; Hawksworth p. 185; Herder p. 470; Hortus 3: 1201 (Peyr.); Jackson p. 93, 104, 105, 134, 170, 373; Kew 4: 289; Langman p. 581; LS 20583-20587; Moebius p. 104; Morren ed. 2, p. 14, ed. 10, p. 37; NI 1523, also 1: 192; PR 4843, 7100, 10019, 10615; Rehder 5: 665; Stevenson p. 1254 (err.); TL-1/1389; TL-2/3507, 3894, see Fenzl, E.; Tucker 1: 552. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 37: 407. 1889; Bot. Jahrb. 11 (Beibl. 24): I. 1889; Bot. Not. 1890: 45; Bot. Zeit. 37: 64. 1879 (app. Innsbruck), 47: 242. 1889 (d. 14 Mar 1889); Bull. Soc. bot. France 25 (bibl.): 190. 1879 (app. Innsbruck); Flora 54: 288 (curator W), 400 (id.) 1871, 56: 144. 1873 (habil. W), 61: 544. 1878 (app. Innsbruck); Leopoldina 25: 56. 1889 (bibl.); Nat. Nov. 1: 157. 1879 (app. Innsbruck); 11: 122. 1889 (d. 14 Mar 1889); Österr. bot. Z. 11: 371. 1861 (alpine journeys), 21: 289. 1871 (curator W), 28: 346. 1878 (app. Innsbruck), 39: 160. 1889 (d. 14 Mar 1889). Bayley Balfour, J., Ann. Bot. 3: 486-487. 1890 (bibl.). - Beck, G. v., Bot. Centralbl. 33: 379. 1888, 34: 87. 1888; *in* Fritsch, K. et al., Bot. Anst. Wiens 64. 1894 (curator W). - Dalla Torre, K.W. von, Ber. naturw.-med. Ver. Innsbruck 1890/91: 10-91. Oct 1891 (posthumous publ. of floristic notes). - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 160. 1938 (dir. bot. gard. Innsbruck 1878-1889). - Heinricher, Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 7: (12)-(20). 1889 (obit., bibl., b. 20 Oct 1835, d. 14 Mar 1889), see also p. (180). - Kanitz, A., Magy. növen Lap. 13: 90-92. 1890 (obit., bibl.). - Kronfeld, M., Bot. Centralbl. 40: 133-135, 171-174, 204-205. 1889 (bibl.). - Magnus, P., Ber. naturw.-med.-Ver. Innsbruck 21: 25-73, *pl. I.* 1894 (on fungi collected by P. at IB). (reprint, Innsbruck 1894, p. (1)-49, *pl. 1*). - Urban, I., Fl. bras. 1(1): 193-194. 1906 (biogr. data; b. 20 Oct 1835, d. 14 Mar 1889, bibl., biogr. refs.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 1: 18. 1935. #### Composite works - (1) Editor, with Theodor Kotschy, q.v., of *Plantae tinneanae*, 1867, see TL-2/3894. - (2) Co-author, with H. Wawra, q.v., of *Sertum benguelense*, 1860, (see TL-1/1389). - (3) *Erythroxylaceae, in* Warming, E., *Symb. bras.* 27: 156-157. 10 Mai 1883 (date Fox Maule). - (4) Martius, *Fl. bras.*: (a) *Hippocrateaceae*, 11(1): 125-164, *pl. 42-49.* 1 Feb 1878 (fasc. 75). (b) *Erythroxylaceae*, 12(1): 125-180, *pl. 23-32.* 1 Dec 1878 (fasc. 81). #### Eponymy *Peyritschia* E. Fournier (1881); *Peyritschiella* R. Thaxter (1890). ### Publications ##### n.7805. Über einige Pilze aus der Familie der Laboulbenien **Title** *Über einige Pilze aus der Familie der Laboulbenien*... \[aus dem lxiv. Bande der Sitzb. der k. Akad. der Wissensch.... Wien (Druck der k.k. Hof– und Staatsdruckerei)\] 1871. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov-Dec 1871 (or early 1872?; Bot. Zeit. 12 Jul 1872) (mss. submitted 2 Nov 1871, "Nov.-Heft" 1871 of journal), p. \[1\]- 18, *pl. 1-2* (col.). *Copy*: G. – Reprinted or preprinted from S.B. k. Akad. Wiss., Wien 64(1): 441-458, *pl. 1-2.* 1871 (or 1872). References in literature: ÖbZ 1 Jul 1872, Bot. Zeit. 12 Jul 1872. This might indicate that publication took place later than Nov-Dec 1871. ##### n.7806. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Laboulbenien **Title** *Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Laboulbenien*... \[aus dem lxviii. Bande der Sitzb. der k. Akad. der Wissensch....\] 1873. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: Nov-Dec 1873 (submitted 23 Oct 1873; in "Oct.-Heft" of Sitzungsberichte; Bot. Zeit. 19 Jun 1874), p. \[1\]-28, *pl. 1-3* (uncol. liths., Liepoldt). *Copy*: G. – Reprinted or preprinted from S.B. k. Akad. Wiss. 68(1): 227-245, *pl. 1-3.* 1873 (or 1874). *Note*: The third main paper by P. on this group was *Ueber Vorkommen und Biologie von Laboulbeniaceen*, in id. 72(1): 377-385. 1875. (No reprint seen by us). ##### n.7807. Zur Synonymie einiger Hippocratea-Arten **Title** *Zur Synonymie einiger Hippocratea-Arten*... \[aus dem lxx. Bande der Sitzb. der k. Akad. der Wissensch. I. Abth. Oct.-Heft. Jahrg. 1874, Wien (k.k. Hof– u. Staatsdruckerei)\] 1874. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 22 Oct-31 Dec 1874, p. \[1\]-23. *Copy*: G. – Reprinted or preprinted from S.B. Akad. Wiss., Wien, 70(Abth. I): 401-423. Oct 1874 (publ. Oct-Dec 1874). ##### n.7808. Aroideae maximilianae **Title** *Aroideae maximilianae*. Die auf der Reise Sr. Majestät des Kaisers Maximilian I. nach Brasilien gesammelten Arongewächse nach handschriftlichen Aufzeichnungen von H. Schott beschrieben von Dr. J. Peyritsch... Wien (Druck und Verlag von Carl Gerold's Sohn) 1879. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Aroid. maximil.* **Notes** *Original descriptions*: Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1794-1865). *Editors*: subsequently: Heinrich Wawra, Ritter von Fernsee (1831-1887), Carl Georg Theodor Kotschy (1813-1866), Siegfried Reisseck (1819-1871) Eduard Fenzl (1808-1879) and, ultimately: Peyritsch. *Artists*: Wenzel Liepoldt (1841-1901); (title:) and Joseph Selleny (1824-1875). – Originals of plates at W. *Publ*.: Oct 1879 (p. \[vi\]: Jun 1879; Nat. Nov. Oct(2) 1879; Bot. Zeit. 5 Dec 1879; Engler reviewed the book on 10 Nov 1879), p. \[i-viii\], frontisp., \[1\]-53, *pl. 1-42* (chromoliths. W. Liepoldt). *Copies*: B, BR, FI, G, MO, NY, U; IDC 1033. – Schott worked only with the living plants brought back by the expedition and grown in Schönbrunn. Wawra relates that the herbarium specimens of aroids of the expedition were lost (by Schott). Most of the new species of the expedition were previously published by Schott in the Österr. bot. J. and in Bonplandia (see under Schott). *Ref*.: Brown, N.E., J. Bot. 18: 59-60. Feb 1880. - Engler, A., Bot. Zeit. 37: 853-856. 26 Dec 1879 (rev. dated 10 Nov 1879), Bot. Jahrb. 1: 50-52. 30 Apr 1880 (important assessment by Schott's successor as arologist). - Wawra, H., Österr. bot. Z. 29: 400-402. 1879.