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See also:BOUE, AMI (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. 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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