Paul Leverkühn

Paul Georg Heinrich Martin Reinhold Leverkühn (January 12, 1867, Hanover, Germany - December 5, 1905, Sofia, Bulgaria ) was a German physician and ornithologist.

He worked briefly as a physician before being employed by Prince Ferdinand I of Bulgaria in June 1892 to maintain the newly created zoo and natural history museum in Sofia.

[1] In Sofia, Leverkühn organized the natural history museum made up of 14 buildings with two floors.

Leverkühn published on various collection records and helped complete the publications of deceased ornithologist, Adolf Mejer.

In execution of his will, his body was moved to Gotha to be cremated there, after a ceremony in the German Protestant Church in Sofia.