Johann Joseph Peyritsch

Johann Joseph Peyritsch (October 20, 1835 - March 14, 1889) was an Austrian physician and botanist who was a native of Völkermarkt.

In 1864 he earned his medical doctorate from Vienna, and from 1878 to 1889 was a professor of botany at the University of Innsbruck. He was editor of Heinrich Wilhelm Schott's celebrated monograph on aroids, Aroideae Maximilianae, and with Theodor Kotschy (1813-1866) was co-author of Plantae Tinneanae, a book describing flora collected on the Tinné expedition to Sudan.

The plant genus Peyritschia from the family Poaceae is named in his honor.

References

• Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen by Jan-Peter Frahm & Jens Eggers, (biography in German)
• [1] International Aroid Society, The Botanical Art of Schott's Aroideae Maximilianae