Ami Boué

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Ami Boué, 1880
Bust created by Viktor Tilgner

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 Chapeaurouge (1772-1804). He received his first training in Hamburg and Geneva .

At the University of Edinburgh , where he studied medicine in the same course with Samuel Hibbert , his later career was decisively influenced by Robert Jameson and his lectures on geology and mineralogy . Boué went on geological expeditions to different areas of Scotland and parts of the Hebrides . After successfully completing his medical degree in 1817, he moved to Paris for a few years .

In 1820 he published his "Essai géologique sur l'Ecosse" on igneous rock . Due to his frequent study trips through Germany , Austria , France and numerous countries in southern Europe , which he undertook in the following decade to study the geological formations there and to publish the results, he became one of the pioneers of geological (and geognostic) research . Among other things, Boué wrote the first comprehensive geological description of Bosnia-Herzegovina, examined the geological conditions of the Gschliefgraben and determined the age of the Alpine limestone . In 1830 he was one of the founders of the " Société géologique de France " and served as its president until 1835. He also worked in London and Vienna as a member of the local geographic 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 Leopoldina Scholars' Academy .

Boué's life's work consists of 275 scientific writings, including a. Drafts for probably one of the first geological maps in the world and the tunneling under the Dover - Calais strait that has now been implemented. As a member of the Kaiserl. Academy of Sciences in Vienna (appointed in 1848) he published numerous study results between 1859 and 1870 on the collected (mainly geological) data of the Balkans . His other important publications include the “Mémoires géologiques et paleontologiques” (Paris, 1832) and “La Turquie d'Europe; observations sur la geographie, la geologie, l'histoire naturelle ”(Paris, 1840) , in which he deals in detail with geography , geology , flora and fauna , population , costumes and customs , archeology , agriculture , administration and history of the European part of Turkey including the countries of Montenegro , Bosnia , Albania , Landscape , Serbia , Macedonia , Chalkidike and Thessaly .

His bust (a work by Viktor Tilgner , Vienna ) is in the Austrian Gallery in the Belvedere in Vienna , a plaster cast in the City Museum of Vöslau , and another in the archive of the University of Vienna . A portrait of Boué's old age by Johann Baptist Reiter from 1878 is exhibited in the Castle Museum in Linz / Danube.

Honors

Ami Boué Medal of the Société Géologique de France (work by Georges Deicha)

Fonts

Monographs

  • 1822: Mémoire géologique sur l'Allemagne . Paris: Huzard-Courcier (separate print from the Journal de physique )
  • 1832: Mémoires géologiques et paleontologiques . 2 volumes. Paris: F.-G. Levrault / Brussels: Librairie parisienne ( Gallica )
  • 1840: Esquisse géologique de la Turquie d'Europe . Paris: Bourgogne et Martinet ( Gallica )
  • 1840: La Turquie d'Europe , ou Observations sur la geographie, la géologie, l'histoire naturelle, la statistique et les moeurs de cet empire . 4 volumes. Paris: A. Bertrand
    • European Turkey . 2 volumes. Reprint of the Vienna 1889 edition. With a preface by Peter Boué and an afterword by Wolfgang Geier. Wagener Edition, Melle 2008, ISBN 978-3-937283-13-5
  • 1852: Sur l'Établissement de bonnes Routes et surtout de Chemins de fer dans la Turquie d'Europe. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller ( Google )
  • 1854: Recueil d'itinéraires dans la Turquie d'Europe. Geographical details, topographiques et statistics sur cet Empire . 2 volumes. Vienna: W. Braumüller (Google: Volume I - Volume II )
  • 1879: Autobiography du Docteur médécin Ami Boué, membre de l'Academie Impériale des Sciences de Vienne (...). Vienna: F. Ullrich and son

Articles (selection)

  • 1836: "Geographical and Geological Observations on some parts of European Turkey, namely Mœsia, Bulgaria, Romelia, Albania, and Bosnia". In: The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 25 (April – October 1838), pp. 174–195
  • 1836: "Travels in Turkey, Bosnia and Serbia". In: The Abroad , No. 332 (November 27, 1836), p. 1327 f.
  • 1838: "Remarks about the plague which devastated European Turkey in 1837 and about the Serbian quarantines". In: Gesundheits-Zeitung , New Series, Volume 2, No. 28-33 (April 1838), pp. 234-236, 247-249, 265 f., 273-275
  • 1841: "Something about the way of traveling in Turkey". In: Ost und West , No. 37–41 (May 7–21, 1841)
  • 1844: "The ethnography of European Turkey and western Asia Minor, represented geographically on my map of Turkey". In: Official report on the twenty-first meeting of German naturalists and doctors in Gratz, in September 1843 (ed. By L. Langer & A. Schrötter), Graz 1844, pp. 120–126
  • 1844: "Critique of the Maps of Turkey". In: Zeitschrift für Erdkunde 3 (1844), pp. 427–446
  • 1862: "Essai sur les limites des provinces de la Turquie d'Europe". In: Le Globe. Revue genevoise de geographie 3 (1862), pp. 197-240
  • 1863: "Discovery of some Leithakalk petrafacts in the uppermost layers of the calcareous dolomite breccias in Gainfahrn". In: Sber. 46, Vienna 1863, p. 41 f.
  • 1866: "About the meeting of fossil remains from several classes of organic nature". In: Sber. 52, Vienna 1866, pp. 580-590
  • 1870: "Les Chemins de fer en Turquie". In: Annales des Voyages , (Ed. Malte-Brun) 1870, pp. 273-276
  • 1871: "List of tumuli or old burial mounds in European Turkey". In: Mittheilungen der Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien 1, No. 6 (1871), pp. 156–158

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Boué, Ami . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, pp. 96-100 ( digitized version ).
  • Franz von Hauer : In memory of Dr. Ami Boué . in: Yearbook of the Imperial and Royal Geological Institute, vol. 32, Vienna 1882, pp. 1–6 ( digitized ; PDF; 590 kB)
  • Karl von Zittel:  Boué, Ami . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, p. 153 f.
  • Boué Ami. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 104.
  • Peter Bartl: Boué, Ami . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 1. Munich 1974, p. 243 f.
  • Goulven Laurent : Ami Boué, sa vie et son œuvre, Travaux du Comité fr. Hist. Géol., (3), VII, 1993, pp. 19-30.
  • Johannes Seidl: Ami Boué (1794–1881), géoscientifique du XIXe siècle . In: C (omptes) R (endus) Palevol 1, ed. Académie des Sciences; Editions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier . Paris 2002, pp. 649-656.
  • Wolfgang Geier, Jürgen M. Wagener (eds.): Ami Boué (1794–1881) - life and selected writings . With the collaboration of Tillfried Cernajsek and Johannes Seidl. Wagener Edition, Melle 2006, ISBN 978-3-937283-14-2 .
  • Wolfgang Geier: "Ami Boué in the Southeast European customer of the 19th century". In: Johannes Seidl (Hrsg.): Eduard Suess and the development of earth sciences between Biedermeier and Secession . Vienna 2009, pp. 229–244.
  • Claus Gossler: Boué, Ami (Amédé) . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 5 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0640-0 , p. 58-59 .
  • Johannes Seidl, Angelika Ende (ed.): Ami Boué (1794–1881). Autobiography (in German translation) - Genealogy - Opus . With the collaboration of Inge Häupler and Claudia Schweizer. Wagener Edition, Melle 2013, ISBN 978-3-937283-19-7 .
  • SB Weiss: “Ami Boué: Hamburg patrician - cosmopolitan - natural scientist. Pioneer of Austrian geology ”. In: Geo.Alp 11 (2014), pp. 275–284.

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