ARCHAEOLOGIST

Ami Boué

1794 - 1881

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Ami Boué (16 March 1794 – 21 November 1881) was a geologist of French Huguenot origin. Born at Hamburg, he was 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ami Boué is the 37th most popular archaeologist (up from 49th in 2019), the 2,135th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,479th in 2019) and the 8th most popular German Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Ami Boué ranks 37 out of 151. Before him are Paul Pelliot, George Gaylord Simpson, Bogdan Filov, Robert Ballard, André Leroi-Gourhan, and Ernst Curtius. After him are Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Henri Breuil, Paul-Émile Botta, Leonard Woolley, John O. Westwood, and Hat Hor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Ami Boué ranks 17. Before him are Ignaz Moscheles, William Whewell, Léon Cogniet, Johann Heinrich von Mädler, Eduard Rüppell, and Eilhard Mitscherlich. After him are Jacques Collin de Plancy, Mirza Shafi Vazeh, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Aimable Pélissier, and Pyotr Chaadayev. Among people deceased in 1881, Ami Boué ranks 34. Before him are William Burges, Ludwig von Benedek, Prince August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sophia Perovskaya, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, and Archduchess Clementina of Austria. After him are Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville, Aga Khan I, Jacques Collin de Plancy, Daniele Comboni, Nikolai Kibalchich, and Joseph Škoda.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ami Boué ranks 2,136 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Globke (1898), Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744), Igor Mitoraj (1944), Klaus Kinkel (1936), Helmold (1120), and Johann VI, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (1536). After him are John A. Roebling (1806), Princess Elisabeth of Prussia (1815), Prince Karl Theodor of Bavaria (1795), Thomas C. Südhof (1955), Princess Mathilde of Saxony (1863), and Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut (1772).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Germany

Among archaeologists born in Germany, Ami Boué ranks 8. Before him are Heinrich Schliemann (1822), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Isdal Woman (1940), Karl Richard Lepsius (1810), Leo Frobenius (1873), and Ernst Curtius (1814). After him are Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853), Max von Oppenheim (1860), Adolf Furtwängler (1853), Heinrich Karl Brugsch (1827), Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), and Halet Çambel (1916).

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