Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès

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Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès
Born(1767-06-24)24 June 1767
Marseille, France
Died13 June 1846(1846-06-13) (aged 78)
Graville, Le Havre
Resting placeGraville priory
OccupationGeographer, translator
LanguageFrench
Alma materCollege of Juilly
Period1807–1847
GenreAcademic, Gothic
SubjectTravel, geography
Notable worksFantasmagoriana
Notable awardsLegion of Honour
1844

Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès (French:

sandbank near French Island, Australia, and a street in Le Havre.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

Biography

Born in Marseille on 24 June 1767, the son of Jacques-Joseph Eyriès, a "lieutenant de frégates du roi" ('lieutenant of the king's frigates'), and Jeanne-Françoise Deluy (1748–1826). He moved to Le Havre in 1772 when his father was promoted to "commandant de la Marine" ('commander of the Navy'), and went to study at the College of Juilly. Eyriès began to travel to England, Germany, Sweden and Denmark to learn their languages and study botany and mineralogy, and through it grew to love geography and travel. Returning to Le Havre, he began working in the armaments trade, including commercial expeditions to various parts of the world, while taking care of a natural history museum there. In 1794 he went to Paris to free his father, who had been detained as a suspect in the new Republic, moving there the following year to devote himself to his studies, where he attended lectures by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu and Georges Cuvier, and started collecting old travel books.[2][4]

Banc Eyriès sandbank, south of French Island (Île des Français), Australia

He was given a mission in 1804–1805 by

Joseph François Michaud, writing many articles for it up until his death. His quality as a translator and extensive scientific knowledge earned him the friendship and admiration of many respected scientists, notably including Alexander von Humboldt and Conrad Malte-Brun, the latter of whom he joined in 1819 to continue the publication of Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, de la Géographie et de l’Histoire, a journal dedicated to the advancement of the earth sciences.[2][4]

Mont Eyriès mountain, east of Yos Sudarso Bay (Baie Humboldt), New Guinea

In 1821 he became one of the two hundred and seventeen founding members of the world's first geographical society, the

sandbank near French Island, Australia, and Mont Eyriès, a double-peaked mountain near Yos Sudarso Bay, New Guinea.[8] He was admitted to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1839, was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1840 and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1841, and was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1844.[2][6][7]

Edme François Jomard. He left a library of about 20,000 volumes collected throughout his life, which reflect his interest in rare and old works on travel and geography, and included almost everything written on Normandy, Le Havre and Provence, with rare maps from the German and Scandinavian countries, some of which are not even in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Many of these books, and some of his manuscripts, remain as of 2006 in the municipal library of Le Havre, and a street "Rue Jean Baptiste Eyries" was named after him in the city. Eyriès was remembered by his contemporaries for his erudition, selfless dedication, prodigious memory, critical thinking and modesty, and Pierre Larousse wrote of him: "Many people still remember seeing a little old man in antiquated clothes, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and reading along the waterfront: that was Eyriès, who worked to fill his vast memory and his rich library at the same time."[2][4]

Bibliography

As author

As contributor

As editor

As translator

References

  1. BnF 153050357
  2. ^ a b c d e Coste, Hélène (January 2006). "Conserver et mettre en valeur des cartes et plans en bibliothèque municipale : l'exemple de la collection Chardey au Havre" (PDF). Mémoire d'Étude (in French). 1. École nationale supérieure des sciences de l'information et des bibliothèques: 23–25. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  3. ^ Thomas, Joseph (1908). Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1 (3rd revised ed.). Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. p. 952.
  4. ^ a b c d Larousse, Joseph (1870). Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe Siècle (in French). Vol. 7. Paris: Administration du Grand Dictionnaire Universel. p. 1235.
  5. JSTOR 25057936
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  6. ^ a b "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  7. ^ a b "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter E" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
  8. ^ d'Urville, Jules Dumont (1833). "Chapitre 2: Hydrographie". Voyage de découvertes de l'Astrolabe (in French). Paris: Le Ministère de la Marine. pp. 199, 362, 478.

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