André Hubert Dumont



André Hubert Dumont (February 15, 1809–February 28, 1857) was a Belgian geologist.

Dumont was born at Liège. His first work was a masterly Mémoire on the geology of the province of Liege published in 1832. A few years later he became professor of mineralogy and geology and afterwards rector in the University of Liege. His attention was then given to the mineralogical and stratigraphical characters of the geological formations in Belgium and the names given by him to many subdivisions of Cretaceous and Tertiary ages have been adopted.

His Mémoire sur les terrains ardennais et rhénan de l'Ardenne, du Brabant et du Condroz (1847-1848) is notable for the care with which the mineral characters of the strata were described, but the palaeontological characters were insufficiently considered, and neither the terms Silurian nor Devonian were adopted.