Pavol Socháň

Pavol Socháň (6 June 1862, Liptovský Mikuláš - 26 January 1941, Bratislava) was a Slovakian photographer, ethnographer, writer and artist.

He employed numerous pseudonyms, including Borivoj Rehtáčka, Dobroslav Pokrievka, Matej Trúbela, P. S. Zvonický, and Dušan Lipeň.

He began his education at the Evangelical school in Kežmarok, but was expelled for teaching Slovak to his fellow students, which was forbidden at that time.

It was there he began devoting himself to ethnographic research; collecting folk literature and art and documenting the local culture photographically.

After the outbreak of World War I a warrant was issued for his arrest,[citation needed] stemming from earlier suspicions about his loyalty, and he fled to the United States.