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Place of Birth: Aytos, Burgas Province, Bulgaria
About Nikolay Boev
- Nikolay Krumov Boev (8 May 1922 - 12 November 1985) was a Bulgarian zoologist who worked at the National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria) at Sofia.
- He specialized in ornithology, but also worked on mammals and was a pioneer of wildlife conservation in Bulgaria.
- He has been considered the father of modern ornithology and conservation in Bulgaria.Boev was born in Aytos, Bourgas District to Krum, a book merchant and Zlatka Georgieva, a teacher of French and Russian.
- He went to the local schools and took an interest in animals at a young age.
- He took a special interest in birds and his first publication was Cursed Birds published in the Bulgarian journal Nature in 1941.
- He joined the army and served for 3 years in Shumen, collecting fossils at the same time.
- He also spent time in the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia where he met Boris III of Bulgaria, a keen ornithologist.
- He was also in touch with Italian ornithologist Edgardo Moltoni and after the war he joined Sofia University where he worked with Pavel Patev of the Sofia Zoo.
- From 1944 he worked on reorganizing the ornithological collections at the Museum along with Ivan Buresh and Pavel Patev.
- In 1947 graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics and was appointed as laboratory technician.
- In 1950 he worked in the zoo and returned to the Zoological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.He was a keen popularizer and writer on natural history topics, appearing on television shows and illustrating books on his own.
- He researched folks names of birds in Bulgarian and also took an interest in conservation.
- In 1951 he was the Secretary for the Union for the Protection of Nature under Kiril Rizov.
- He helped in the translation into Bulgarian and publication of many works by foreign authors such as Tinbergen, Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall, Gerald Durrell and others whom he knew personally.
- He published Red Book of the Republic of Bulgaria in two volumes.
- His son Zlatozar Boev also became an ornithologist.
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