Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (1767-1846)


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Name (English): Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
Short name: Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
Year of birth: 1767
Year of death: 1846
Short Description: "Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (French: [ʒɑ̃ batist bənwa ɛːʁjɛs]; 24 June 1767 – 13 June 1846) was a French geographer, author and translator, best remembered in the English speaking world for his translation of German ghost stories Fantasmagoriana, published anonymously in 1812, which inspired Mary Shelley and John William Polidori to write Frankenstein and The Vampyre respectively. He was one of the founding members of the Société de Géographie, a member of the Société Asiatique, admitted to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, awarded the Legion of Honour, elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1841, and has a street named after him in Le Havre and a mountain near Humboldt Bay." - (en.wikipedia.org 09.12.2020)
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[Last update: 2020/12/09]