Facts: - language: french - period: 1807 -- 1847 - resting place: graville priory - notableworks: '' fantasmagoriana '' - subject: travel , geography - death date: 13 june 1846 - genre: academic , gothic - awards: legion of honour 1844 - birth date: 24 june 1767 - alma mater: college of juilly - nationality: french - influenced: mary , percy bysshe shelley shelley , john william polidori , lord byron - death place: graville , le havre - birth place: marseille - occupation: geographer , translator Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jean-baptiste benoit eyries .
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jean-baptiste benoit eyries -lrb- ; 24 june 176713 june 1846 -rrb- 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 societe de geographie , a member of the societe asiatique , admitted to the academie 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 .