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AMI BOUE (1794-1881)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 315 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOUE (1794-1881)  , See also:Austrian geologist, was See also:born at See also:Hamburg on the 16th of See also:March 1794, and received his See also:early See also:education there and in See also:Geneva and See also:Paris . Proceeding to See also:Edinburgh to study See also:medicine at the university, he came under the See also:influence of See also:Robert See also:Jameson, whose teachings in See also:geology and See also:mineralogy inspired his future career . See also:Boue was thus led to make See also:geological expeditions to various parts of See also:Scotland and the See also:Hebrides, and after taking his degree of M.D. in 1817 he settled for some years in Paris . In 182o he issued his Essai geologique sur l'Ecosse, in which the eruptive rocks in particular were carefully described . He travelled much in See also:Germany, See also:Austria and See also:southern See also:Europe, studying various geological formations, and becoming one of the pioneers in geological See also:research; he was one of the founders of the Societe Geologique de See also:France in 1830, and was its See also:president in 1835 . In 1841 he settled in See also:Vienna, and became naturalized as an Austrian . He died on the 21st of See also:November 1881 . To the Imperial See also:Academy of Sciences at Vienna he communicated important papers on the geology of the See also:Balkan States (1859-1870), and he also published Memoires geologiques et paleontologiques (Paris, 1832) and La Turquie d'Europe; observations sur la geographic, la geologie, l'histoire naturelle, € v . (Paris, 1840) .

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