Ami Boué
Austrian geologist, physician and botanist (1794-1881) · Scientists · Died at 87
Ami Boué was a geologist of French Huguenot origin. Born at Hamburg, he was trained in Edinburgh and across Europe. Based on fossil and the strata in which he observed them, he suggested that there were continuous change in the animal forms that existed over time and opposed the theories of catastrophism of the period.
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He travelled across Europe, studying geology, as well as ethnology, and is considered to be among the first to produce a geological map of the world.
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Lived 1794 to 1881 · aged 87
