Paul Leverkühn

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Paul Leverkühn (1867–1905)
Obituary in ornithological monthly
Paul Leverkühn 1898

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

Life

Leverkühn was a son of the Privy Councilor Carl Leverkühn and his wife Louise, b. Grisebach, a sister of August Grisebach . The lawyer August Leverkühn was his brother.

He attended Lyceum I in Hanover and the grammar school in Clausthal for a year . From 1886 he studied human medicine at the universities of Kiel (until 1888), Strasbourg (1888/89), Freiburg (1889) and from 1889 to 1891 at the University of Munich . In February 1891, he passed the medical state examination in Munich and was promoted to Dr. med. PhD. He initially worked in Munich as a general practitioner and assistant doctor until he was hired by Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria in June 1892 . Before moving to Bulgaria, he did a military exercise in the Bavarian army and became a reserve medical officer and later a medical officer in the reserve.

In May 1893 he arrived in Sofia, where he was initially the prince's private secretary; just a month later Ferdinand appointed him director of the scientific collections. In 1897 he also took on the duties of the princely private secretary for German-language correspondence and librarian.

Leverkühn's passion was the collection and protection of birds. Together with Carl Parrot (1867–1911) he founded an ornithological reading circle in Bavaria in 1889 , within which the most important ornithological specialist publications are to circulate. While Karl Theodor Liebe (1828–1894) was initially skeptical about the prospects of success, he later appeared impressed. So he wrote:

"But since then I have been happy to hear repeatedly that the reading circle, which was founded with fresh courage, is not only eking out its existence, but is also developing."

And further he noticed ...

"Mr. Leverkühn deserves our full recognition for his brave approach and perseverance and his reading circle our warmest recommendation."

40 journals were published for an annual fee of 15 marks. 21 of the magazines were pure ornithological magazines, 7 hunting and sports magazines and 12 general and special zoological magazines.

Leverkühn would later become the first director of the Natural History Museum in Sofia, founded by Ferdinand I in 1889, which is now known as the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia ( NMNHS ). Leverkühn organized the first exhibition, which comprised 14 halls with two floors, but which was only made accessible to the public in 1907 after his death.

In 1884 he published the article hunting results in the ornithological monthly . It was u. a. about the settlement of the pheasant and the shooting of the sea ​​eagle . This was followed in 1887 by Adolf Mejer's ornithological papers in the Journal of Ornithology . He thus completed Adolf Mejer's work . In the ornithological monthly of the German Association for the Protection of the Bird World, he published literature about the steppe grouse in 1889 . In the ornithological yearbook , which was published by Victor Ritter von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen , he published an old Pomeranian bird fauna . In 1892, von Leverkühn published a report in the Stettiner Zeitschrift about an abnormally colored duck . In 1894 he reported on the breeding business of the Crotophagids in the Journal of Ornithology . In 1901 an obituary for Gustav Hartlaub was published in the Journal of Ornithology In memory of Dr. Gustav Hartlaub with whom he was in regular mail contact. In this obituary he quotes a letter from Hartlaub in which he defamed the pioneer of Hungarian ornithology Salamon János Petényi (1799–1855). In his obituary, Councilor Dr. Paul Leverkühn † in Falco magazine , Otto Kleinschmidt criticizes these Hartlaub quotations from Leverkühn, which he would have liked to have deleted. Since Leverkühn wanted to prevent friends of Kleinschmidt's trip to the Balkans for reasons of bird protection, there were also differences between these two colleagues, which were later resolved.

Leverkühn died of typhus in 1905 . In execution of his request, his body was transferred to Gotha after a memorial service in the German Evangelical Church in Sofia, to be cremated in the local crematorium .

Initial descriptions

Leverkühn was the first author for some bird species and subspecies. He worked with Hans Hermann Carl Ludwig von Berlepsch on some descriptions . Together with Berlepsch, he described the taxon for the following species and subspecies:

species

The species that Leverkühn and Berlepsch described include chronologically:

  • Gray wing ant hatchers ( Myrmotherula behni Berlepsch & Leverkühn , 1890)
  • Eastern dark thicket slip ( Synallaxis cabanisi Berlepsch & Leverkühn , 1890)

Subspecies

The subspecies that Leverkühn include chronologically:

  • Subspecies of the long-tailed soldierbird ( Sturnella loyca falklandica ( Leverkühn , 1889))
  • Subspecies of the Eastern Thicket Slipper ( Synallaxis cabanisi cabanisi Berlepsch & Leverkühn , 1890)
  • Subspecies of the brown pot tyrant ( Myiarchus tyrannulus bahiae Berlepsch & Leverkühn , 1890)
  • Subspecies of the purple pigeon ( Patagioenas subvinacea bogotensis ( Berlepsch & Leverkühn , 1890))
  • Subspecies of the ophthalmic tree climber ( Xiphorhynchus ocellatus lineatocapilla ( Berlepsch & Leverkühn , 1890))

Orders and honors

Leverkühn's obituary in the Leopoldina noted: There was no shortage of external honors; Twenty-one high medals were carried before his coffin on two velvet cushions. These included:

Works

  • About color varieties in birds. From the museums in Hanover, Hamburg and Copenhagen . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 35 , no. 177 , 1887, pp. 79-86 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • The ornithological estate of Adolf Mejer . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 35 , no. 178 , 1887, p. 189–213 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • South American Nova from the Kiel Museum . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 37 , no. 185 , 1889, pp. 101-109 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • The legend of the goldfinch . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 15 , 1890, p. 278-281 .
  • with Hans von Berlepsch: Studies of some South American birds with descriptions of new species . In: Ornis . tape 6 , no. 1 , 1890, p. 1-32 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Baldamus, obituary by P. Leverkühn . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 18 , no. 12 , 1893, pp. 472-475 .
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 15–29 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 45-53 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 82-88 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 123–129 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 165–175 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 199-202 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 228-233 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 257-262 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 291-297 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 308-312 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Bird protection in England . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 19 , 1894, pp. 341–346 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • About the breeding business of the Crotophagids . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 42 , no. 1 , 1894, p. 44-80 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • with Carlo Ettore Arrigoni degli Oddi : The ornithological literature of Italy from 1891 to 1893 . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 42 , no. 3 , 1894, pp. 280–290 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • In memory of Dr. Gustav Hartlaub . In: Journal of Ornithology . tape 49 , no. 3 , 1897, p. 337–359 ( online [accessed January 7, 2013]).
  • Foreign eggs in the nest. A contribution to the biology of birds . Ms. Eugen Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus 1904.
  • Biographical information about the three Naumanns and bibliographical information about their works, along with the preface to the second edition of the Natural History of Birds in Germany . Eugen Köhler, Gera-Untermhaus 1904.

literature

  • Rolf Schoppe: The bird world of the Hildesheim district . Georg Olms AG, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-487-13110-8 .
  • Otto Kleinschmidt: Councilor Dr. Paul Leverkühn † . In: Falco, periodical published after the work "Berajah, Zoographia infinita" . No. 1 , 1905, pp. 101-103 ( online [accessed March 21, 2013]).
  • Hermann Hocke: Paul Leverkühn † . In: Journal of Oology and Ornithology . tape 15 , no. 9 , 1905, pp. 129-130 ( online [accessed March 21, 2013]).
  • Ernst Otto Wilhelm Taschenberg: Hofrat Paul Leverkühn † . In: Leopoldina . tape 41 , no. 12 , 1905, pp. 109–111 ( online [accessed March 21, 2013]).
  • Carl Richard Hennicke: Paul Leverkühn † (with black panel plate IX) . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 31 , no. 4 , 1906, pp. 164-167 .
  • Fergus Menteith Ogilvie: Obituary Dr. Paul Leverkühn . In: The Ibis (=  8 ). tape 6 , no. 9 , 1905, pp. 364-366 ( online [accessed March 21, 2013]).
  • Karl Leopold Theodor Liebe: Leverkühn's ornithological reading circle . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 15 , no. 14 , 1890, p. 389-390 ( online [accessed September 24, 2015]).
  • Carl Parrot: Report . In: Ornithological monthly . tape 15 , no. 14 , 1890, p. 390–393 ( online [accessed September 24, 2015]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Ferdinand von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha 1861-1948 - A cosmopolitan on the Bulgarian throne . Osteuropazentrum Berlin-Verlag (Anthea Verlagsgruppe), Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-89998-296-1 , p. 179, 181 .
  2. ↑ a b c Karl Leopold Theodor Liebe: Leverkühn's ornithological reading circle. P. 390.
  3. ^ Carl Parrot, p. 392 f (with list of the individual journals)
  4. ↑ Home NMNHS
  5. ↑ Paul Leverkühn (1901) In memory of Dr. Gustav Hartlaub. P. 339 ff.
  6. ↑ Otto Kleinschmidt, p. 102.
  7. ^ Ernst Otto Wilhelm Taschenberg: Hofrat Paul Leverkühn † . In: Leopoldina . tape 41 , no. 12 , 1905, pp. 109–111 ( online [accessed April 26, 2015]).
personal data
SURNAME Leverkühn, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leverkühn, Paul Georg Heinrich Martin Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1905
Place of death Sofia