Friend Mud

Ami Mud (March 16th 1794 - November 21st 1881) is a Austrian geologist .

He is born with Hamburg and receives his first education in this city like with Geneva and Paris.

He continues his studies with the Université of Edinburgh where he studies medicine. The influence of Robert Jameson, which teaches the Minéralogie and the Géologie, pushes it towards its future career. It makes geological forwardings in various parts of the Scotland and in the islands Hébrides. After its doctorate it settles a few years with Paris.

In 1820 it publishes geological Essai on Scotland where it describes in particular the eruptive rocks. He travels in Germany, Austria and in the south of the Europe to study geological formations varied. He becomes one of the pioneers of research in Géologie and is one of the founders of the geological Société of France in 1830 of which he is president in 1835. In 1841 it settles in Austria and is naturalized Austrian.

To the academy imperial of sciences of Vienna it communicates important articles on the geology of the Balkans. It publishes also geological and paleontological Mémoires (Paris, 1832) and Turkey of Europe; observations on the geography, geology, the natural history , etc (Paris, 1840). It receives the Médaille Wollaston in 1847.

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Work of Mud digitized by the SCD of [[University Louis Pasteur] of Strasbourg] the

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