Ami Boué

French geologist

Eleonore Beinstingel
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Parent(s)Jean Henri Boué (father); Suzanne Chapeaurouge (mother)AwardsWollaston Medal (1847)Scientific careerFieldsgeology

Ami Boué (16 March 1794[citation needed] – 21 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.[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 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.[2][3][4]

In 1820 he issued his Essai géologique sur l'Écosse, in which the eruptive rocks in particular were carefully described.[5][6] 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.[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 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.[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. ^ Geikie, Archibald (1 December 1881). "Ami Boué". Nature. 25 (631): 109–111. Bibcode:1881Natur..25..109G. doi:10.1038/025109a0. Retrieved 1 February 2019 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Schweizer, Claudia; Seidl, Johannes (1 December 2011). "AMI Boué's (1794-1881) Valuation of Geological Research Regarding its Application to Human Civilisation". Earth Sciences History. 30 (2): 183–199. Bibcode:2011ESHis..30..183S. doi:10.17704/eshi.30.2.g4n153q313816760. 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.

External links

  • Boué, A., M. D. Member of the Wernerian Society (April 1826). "Geological Observations: 1. On Alluvial Rocks; 2. On Formations; 3. On Changes that Appear to have taken place during the different periods of the Earth's formation on the Climate of our Globe; and in the nature and the physical and geographical distribution of Its Animals and Plants". The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts; Conducted by Robert Jameson. I. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black: 82–92. Retrieved 2 February 2019 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Boué, Dr. A. (October 1836 – April 1837). "Some Observations on the Geography and Geology of Northern and Central Turkey; Communicated by the Author in a Letter to the Editor". The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts; Conducted by Robert Jameson. XXII, XXIII. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black: 47–61, 253–270, 54–69. Retrieved 1 February 2019 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Boué, Dr. A. (October 1837 – April 1838). "Remarks on the Scenery, Antiquities, Population, Agriculture and Commerce of Central European Turkey; Communicated by the Author in a Letter to the Editor". The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts; Conducted by Robert Jameson. XXIV. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black: 121–131, 237–251. Retrieved 2 February 2019 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Boué, Dr. A. (1838). "Geographical and Geological Observations on some parts of European Turkey, namely Moesia, Bulgaria, Romelia, Albania, and Bosnia; Communicated by the Author in a Letter to the Editor". The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the Progressive Discoveries and Improvements in the Sciences and the Arts; Conducted by Robert Jameson. XXV. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black: 174–195. Retrieved 2 February 2019 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Boué, A. (1844). "Mémoire à l'appui d'une essai de carte géologique du globe terrestre". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 2nd series. I: 296–371. Retrieved 1 February 2019 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • Craig, G. Y.; Jones, E. J., eds. (1982). "Ami Boué". A Geological Miscellany. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 130–131. doi:10.1515/9781400857913.130b. ISBN 0-691-02389-1.
  • von Zittel, Karl Alfred (1901). History of Geology and Palaentology to the End of the Nineteenth Century;. Translated by Ogilvie-Gordon, Maria M. (1 ed.). London and New York: Walter Scott and Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 149, 271, 302, 352, 429, 472, 517, 525, 531. Retrieved 22 February 2019 – via Internet Archive.
  • v. Zittel. "Boué, Ami" (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  • Works by Boué, Ami at the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
  • Works by or about Ami Boué at Internet Archive
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