Amédée Burat

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Amédée Burat (born July 27, 1809 in Paris , † 1883 ) was a French geologist .

Life

Burat was a mining engineer who studied at the Ecole des Mines with Elie de Beaumont and Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrenoy from 1830 to 1832 . After that he worked for a while as an engineer in industry (construction of steam engines). As early as 1833, however, he published a book on the volcanoes of the Massif Central and he was involved in the new edition of the geology textbook by Jean-François D'Aubuisson de Voisins (1769–1841). He taught from 1838 to 1881 as a professor of mining, geology and mineralogy at the École centrale des Arts et Manufactures . He was also professor of geology at the École spéciale d'architecture and editor of the Journal de l'industriel et du capitaliste.

He published on mining and mineral resources such as coal, applied geology (his textbook appeared in five editions from 1843 to 1871) and a geology of France. In preparation for his textbook on applied geology, he traveled to many mines in Europe, including Germany. He was a geological consultant in the French coal mining industry (specifically in Blanzy ).

Fonts

  • Description des volcans de la France centrale , Paris: Levrault 1833
  • Géologie appliquée, ou Traité de la recherche et de l'exploitation des minéraux utiles , Paris: Langlois et Leclercq, 1843, 5th edition 1870
  • Etude sur les mines. Théorie des gîtes métallifères appuyée sur la description des principaux types du Harz, de la Saxe, des provinces rhénanes, de la Toscane, etc. , Paris: Langlois et Leclercq, 1845
  • De la Houille. Traité théorique et pratique des combustibles minéraux (houille, anthracite, lignite etc) , Paris: Langlois et Leclercq, 1851.
  • Commerce des houilles en France. Marchés du littoral, importations anglaises , Paris, 1852.
  • Mineralogy appliquée. Description des minéraux employés dans les industries métallurgiques et manufacturières, dans les constructions et dans l'ornement , Paris, Liège 1864
  • Les houillères de la France en 1866 , 1867
  • Géologie de la France , Paris: J. Baudry 1874
  • Cours d'exploitation des mines , Paris: J. Baudry, 1871

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personal data
SURNAME Burat, Amédée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French geologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1883