Paul de Peyerimhoff de Fontenelle

His older brother was Henri de Peyerimhoff (1871–1953), a French civil servant and industrialist.

[1] Peyerimhoff obtained his education at the Collège Saint-Sigisbert in Nancy, and later at the École des Eaux et Forêts in the same city.

It was here, while making his first investigations into the cave fauna of the Lower Alps, that Peyerimhoff became friends with J. Sainte-Claire Deville, at that time an artillery lieutenant, but who would go on to become a noted entomologist.

At that point, Peyerimhoff was an honorary inspector general of the Water and Forests Department and also an officer of the Legion of Honor.

During World War II, he was called to direct the Forest Research Station du Bois de Boulogne in Algeria.