Ami Boué

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Ami Boué
M. D.
)
Spouse
Eleonore Beinstingel
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(m. 1826)​
Parent(s)Jean Henri Boué (father); Suzanne Chapeaurouge (mother)
AwardsWollaston Medal (1847)
Scientific career
Fieldsgeology

Ami Boué (16 March 1794[

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.[1]

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

the Hebrides, and after taking his degree of M.D. in 1817 he settled for some years in Paris.[2][3][4]

In 1820 he issued his Essai géologique sur l'Écosse, in which the eruptive rocks in particular were carefully described.

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.[2][7]

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).[2][8][9] This work was published in German under the title -- Die europäische T'ürkei—in 1890.

He was a correspondent 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.[10]

He was supportive of spontaneous generation and argued that spontaneously generated organisms existed at the microscopic level between animals and plants.[10]

Honours

Ami Boué Bluff on Graham Land in Antarctica and streets in Budapest, Varna, Vienna and Sofia are named after him.[11]

  • A view of Ami Boué Street in Sofia, Bulgaria (42°41.153′N 23°17.999′E / 42.685883°N 23.299983°E / 42.685883; 23.299983)
    A view of Ami Boué Street in
    Sofia, Bulgaria (42°41.153′N 23°17.999′E / 42.685883°N 23.299983°E / 42.685883; 23.299983
    )
  • Ethnographic map of the Balkans in 1847 from Ami Boue.
    Ethnographic map of the Balkans in 1847 from Ami Boue.
  • Geology of the world (1850)
    Geology of the world (1850)

References

  1. ^ "Boué, Ami (Amédée) (1794–1881), Geologe und Naturforscher" (in German). Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon und biographische Dokumentation. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Boué, Ami". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 315.
  3. doi:10.1038/025109a0
    . Retrieved 1 February 2019 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ISSN 0736-623X
    .
  5. ^ Boué, Ami (1820), Essai géologique sur l'Écosse, Paris: Mme V Courcier
  6. ^ Geikie, Archibald (1905). The Founders of Geology (2nd ed.). London and New York: Macmillan and Co., Limited. pp. 263–264. Retrieved 1 February 2019 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ Autobiographie du Docteur médécin Ami Boue, membre de l'Academie Impériale des Sciences de Vienne etc.: né à Hambourg le 16 mars 1794 et mort comme Autrichien à Vienne: Le seul survivant quoique l'ainé de-trois frères et d'une soeur (La distribution de cet opuscule n'aura lieu qu'après sa mort) (PDF), Vienne: F. Ullich, 1879, retrieved 5 February 2019 – via Online Katalog der Geologischen Bundesanstalt
  8. ^ Boué, Ami (1832), Mémoires géologiques et paléontologiques, vol. I, Paris, Bruxelles: F.-G. Levrault, retrieved 31 January 2019 – via Gallica
  9. ^ Boué, Ami (1840), La Turquie d'Europe; observations sur la geographie, la géologie, l'histoire naturelle, la statistique, les moeurs, les coutumes, l'achéologie, l'agriculture, l'industrie, le commerce, les gouvernements divers, le clergé, l'histoire et l'etat de cet empire, vol. I, Paris: Arthus Bertrand, retrieved 27 December 2012; Boué, Ami (1840), La Turquie d'Europe; observations sur la geographie, la géologie, l'histoire naturelle, la statistique, les moeurs, les coutumes, l'achéologie, l'agriculture, l'industrie, le commerce, les gouvernements divers, le clergé, l'histoire et l'etat de cet empire, vol. II, Paris: Arthus Bertrand, retrieved 27 December 2012; Boué, Ami (1840), La Turquie d'Europe; observations sur la geographie, la géologie, l'histoire naturelle, la statistique, les moeurs, les coutumes, l'achéologie, l'agriculture, l'industrie, le commerce, les gouvernements divers, le clergé, l'histoire et l'etat de cet empire, vol. III, Paris: Arthus Bertrand, retrieved 27 December 2012; Boué, Ami (1840), La Turquie d'Europe; observations sur la geographie, la géologie, l'histoire naturelle, la statistique, les moeurs, les coutumes, l'achéologie, l'agriculture, l'industrie, le commerce, les gouvernements divers, le clergé, l'histoire et l'etat de cet empire, vol. IV, Paris: Arthus Bertrand, retrieved 27 December 2012
  10. ^ a b Corsi, Pietro. (2012). The Revolutions of Evolution: Geoffroy and Lamarck, 1825-1840. Bulletin du Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique de Monaco 51: 97–122.
  11. ^ "Ami Boué Peak". SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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