From 1825 he studied in Freiburg im Breisgau, in statics, mechanics, chemistry, mineralogy and geology.
This Nassau government building was designed in neo-Renaissance style and houses the Hessian Ministry of Justice now.
From 1850 to 1857 he headed the neo-Gothic reconstruction of the castle Schloss Schaumburg in Balduinstein for Archduke Stefan of Austria.
It suggested villas in the north (Nerotal) and east, denser building in the west and south.
Boos designed the Marktkirche, Wiesbaden, built between 1853 and 1862, a neo-Gothic church on the Schlossplatz in the heart of the city.