He studied law first, then Medicine; but he became a geologist: who is Ami Boue?

(1794-1881) French-German geologist. He has studied on Thrace. He was born on March 16, 1794, in Hamburg. He was the son of a wealthy French family. At the age of 11, he was taken to Paris by his uncle upon the death of his father. He left his law education, which he never liked, and decided not to continue his family's ship-ownership tradition. In 1814, he began his medical studies at Edinburgh University, benefiting from his family inheritance. There, under the influence of the famous mineralogist Robert Jameson, he became interested in botany and geology. He graduated from medical school in 1817 and worked as a physician in various cities of Europe. However, since he adopted geology as his main field of interest, he devoted most of his life to studies in this field. For this purpose, he made studies in Scotland, Hebrides Islands, and Central Europe. After spending 1830-1835 in Paris, he settled in Vienna. In 1849 he was elected to the Vienna Academy of Sciences. He died in this city on 21 November 1881.

Ami Boué (16 March 1794 – 21 November 1881) was a geologist of French Huguenot origin. Born at Hamburg he trained in Edinburgh and across Europe. 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.

While in Paris, Boue founded the French Geological Society and in 1835 became its president. Boue Bulletin de la Societe geologique de France'Az ("Bulletin of the French Geological Society"), which also published two journals on geology and paleontology during this period, published articles on his work in foreign countries between 1830 and 1834. He organized trips to the Thrace Region between 1836-1838 and collected his impressions in his work called La Turguie d'Europe ("European Turkey") in 1840. Also in 1852, he published his work Sur l'etablissement de botines routes et surtont de chemins de fer dans la Turquie d'Eitrope (“On the Construction of Good Roads, Especially Railways in European Turkey”), also on the roads in this region. Although he did not set out with great arguments in the field of geology, Boue is considered one of the pioneers of international geology studies, who does not hesitate to criticize the attitudes and thoughts of other geologists.