Ami Boué
Ami Boué ( born March 16, 1794 in Hamburg, † November 21, 1881 in Vienna ) was a German -Austrian geologist and physician.
Life
His father was Henri Boué (* 1767, † 1848), his mother Suzanne de Chapeau Rouge ( * 1772, † 1804). He received his first training in Hamburg and Geneva.
At the University of Edinburgh where he studied medicine, his later career was decisively influenced by Robert Jameson and his lectures on geology and mineralogy. Boué undertook geological expeditions to various parts of Scotland and parts of the Hebrides. After successfully completing his studies as a medical doctor in 1817, he moved to Paris for a few years.
In 1820 he published his " Essai sur l' Ecosse géologique " about igneous rock. Due to his frequent study trips through Germany, Austria, France and many countries of southern Europe, which he undertook in the following decade to study the local geological formations and to publish the results, he was one of the pioneers of geological ( and geognostical ) research. Among other things, Boué wrote the first comprehensive geological description of Bosnia - Herzegovina, examined the geological relations of the Gschliefgrabens and determined the age of the Alpenkalkes. In 1830 he was among the founders of the " Société géologique de France " and worked until 1835 as its president. Also in London and Vienna, he worked as a member of the local geographical societies ( Royal Geographical Society and Geographical Society in Vienna). In 1835 he moved to Vienna, where he took Austrian citizenship in 1841. In 1864 Boué was elected a member of the Scholars Academy Leopoldina.
The life's work of Boué consists of 275 scientific papers, among which are, inter alia, Designs for probably one of the first geological maps of the world and now realized tunnel under the Strait Dover - Calais. As a member of the Imperial. Academy of Sciences in Vienna ( appointed 1848) he published between 1859 to 1870 numerous study results on the collected (mainly geological ) data of the Balkans. His other major publications include the " Mémoires et Geologiques paléontologiques " (Paris, 1832) and " La Turquie d'Europe; observations sur la geography, la géologie, l' histoire naturelle "(Paris, 1840), where he in detail the geography, geology, flora and fauna, the people, the costumes and customs, archeology, agriculture, management, and history the European part of Turkey, including the countries Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania, landscape, Serbia, Macedonia, Chalkidiki Thessaly and deals.
In 1847, Boué one of the first winners, the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London.
His bust (a work of Viktor Tilgner, Vienna ) is located in the Austrian Gallery in the Belvedere in Vienna, a plaster cast in the City Museum of Vöslau, another in the archives of the University of Vienna. According to him, named streets can be found in Vienna, Budapest, Sofia and Varna, as well as in Bad Vöslau. A 1878 portrait arisen age Boues by Johann Baptist Reiter is exhibited at the Castle Museum in Linz / Danube.
Works
- Discovery of some Leithakalk Petra facts in the uppermost layers of the Kalkdolomit breccias Gainfahrns. SbEr. , 46, Vienna, 1863, pp. 41-42
- About the meeting of fossil remnants of several classes of organic nature. SbEr. , 52, Vienna 1866, pp. 580-590
- The European Turkey. 2 vols. Reprint of the edition Vienna 1889. With a foreword by Peter Boué and an epilogue by Wolfgang Geier. Wagener Edition, Melle 2008, ISBN 978-3-937283-13-5.