Paul Paris

Jean Ferdinand Paul Paris (16 August 1875 – 2 May 1938) was a French naturalist and zoologist who specialised in ornithology.

He was, in 1929, the founder of Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie and served as professor of zoology at the University of Burgundy from 1934.

Paul Paris was born in Chaumont and was educated at the Université de Bourgogne where he graduated in 1901 and worked as a specimen preparator.

On the editorial committee were Noël Mayaud, Henri Heim de Balsac, Jacques de Chavigny, Jacques Delamain, Henri Jouard, Louis Lavauden, and Paul Poty.

He became a curator of the natural history museum in Dijon where he also managed a salmon farm at the Jardin botanique de l'Arquebuse.