Ami Boué
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Ami Boué (16 March 1794<ref name = "Autobiographie"/>Template:Snd21 November 1881) was a geologist of French Huguenot origin. Born at Hamburg, he was trained in Edinburgh and across Europe. He travelled across Europe, studying geology, as well as ethnology, and is considered to be among the first to produce a geological map of the world.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Boué was born in Hamburg where his grandfather Jacques Chapeaurouge had settled in 1705 and established a shipping company which grew. Born in a wealthy home, Boué studied in Hamburg and Geneva before going to study medicine at Edinburgh from 1814 to 1817. Here he came under the influence of Robert Jameson, whose teachings in geology and mineralogy inspired his future career. Boué was thus led to make geological expeditions to various parts of Scotland and the Hebrides, and after taking his degree of M.D. in 1817 he settled for some years in Paris.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |
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In 1820 he issued his Essai géologique sur l'Écosse, in which the eruptive rocks in particular were carefully described.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He travelled much in Germany, Austria and southern Europe, studying various geological formations, and becoming one of the pioneers in geological research; he was one of the founders of the Société Géologique de France in 1830, and was its president in 1835. Boué married Eleonore Beinstingel in 1826 and lived for sometime in Berne and then at Vöslau. In 1841 he settled in Vienna, and became naturalized as an Austrian.<ref name="EB1911"/><ref name = "Autobiographie">Template:Citation</ref>
To the Imperial Academy of Sciences at Vienna he communicated important papers on the geology of the Balkan States (1859–1870), and he also published Mémoires géologiques et paléontologiques (Paris, 1832) and La Turquie d'Europe; observations sur la geographie, la géologie, l'histoire naturelle, etc. (Paris, 1840).<ref name="EB1911"/><ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>Template:Citation; Template:Citation; Template:Citation; Template:Citation</ref> This work was published in German under the title -- Die europäische T'ürkei—in 1890.
He was a correspondent of the Serbian Learned Society. In 1849 he published the first ethnological map of the Balkan Peninsula.
He is buried in a crypt in the Vöslau cemetery.
Evolution
Boué was an advocate of transmutation of species. He was influenced by the evolutionary views of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.<ref name="Corsi">Template:Cite journal</ref>
He was supportive of spontaneous generation and argued that spontaneously generated organisms existed at the microscopic level between animals and plants.<ref name="Corsi"/>
Honours
Ami Boué Bluff on Graham Land in Antarctica and streets in Budapest, Varna, Vienna and Sofia are named after him.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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A view of Ami Boué Street in Sofia, Bulgaria (Template:Coord) -
Ethnographic map of the Balkans in 1847 from Ami Boue. -
Geology of the world (1850)
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External links
- Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
- 1794 births
- 1881 deaths
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Austrian ethnographers
- 19th-century Austrian geologists
- Scientists from Hamburg
- Presidents of Société géologique de France
- Proto-evolutionary biologists
- Wollaston Medal winners