Paul Leverkühn

Paul Leverkühn (12 January 1867 – 5 December 1905) was a German ornithologist.

Life

Leverkühn's passion was the collection and protection of birds. Together with Carl Parrot (1867-1911) he founded in 1889 an Ornithological read Cirkels in Bavaria, within which the most important ornithological specialist publications are circulated. While Karl Theodor Love (1828-1894) initially expressed still skeptical about the chances of success, shows he impressed later.

Later Leverkühn would be the first director of the 1889 Ferdinand I. founded Royal Prince's Natural History Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia (NMNHS). Leverkühn organized the first exhibition that included 14 buildings with two floors, but was made available after his death to the public until 1907. In 1884 he published in the Ornithological monthly article hunting results. This concerned, inter alia through the establishment of the pheasant and the launch of the Eagle . It was followed in 1887 The ornithological estate Adolf Mejer's in the Journal of Ornithology . He thus completed the work Adolf Mejers . In the Ornithological Monthly Magazine of the German Association for the Protection of bird life he published in 1889 about the Literary Steppenhuhn . The Ornithological Year Book, which by Viktor von Tschusi was issued, he published An old Pomeranian bird fauna. 1892 appeared from Leverkühn in the Szczecin magazine a report with names over an abnormally colored duck. In 1894 he reported about the business of breeding Crotophagiden in the Journal of Ornithology. Followed in 1901 in the Journal of Ornithology an obituary for Gustav Hartlaub In memory of Dr. Gustav Hartlaub with whom he was in regular correspondence. In this obituary, he quotes a letter Hartlaub, by this the leader of the Hungarian Ornithology Salamon János Petényi (1799-1855) defamed. In his obituary Councilor Dr. Paul Leverkühn in the journal Falco criticized Otto Kleinschmidt these Hartlaub quotes Leverkühn, he would have liked to be deleted. Since Leverkühn wanted to prevent a trip in the Balkans by friends Kleinschmidt for reasons of bird protection, there were also differences between these two colleagues who were allayed later. In 1905 Leverkühn died of typhus .