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Edward HincksPlaque to Edward Hincks in Killyleagh, County Down
Edward Hincks (19 August 1792 – 3 December 1866) was an Irish clergyman, best remembered as an Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform. He was one of the three men known as the "holy trinity of cuneiform", with Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and Jules Oppert.
Rawlinson and Jules Oppert. EdwardHincks was born in Cork on 19 August 1792. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Dix Hincks, a distinguished Protestant...
general during the American Civil War. Hincks was born in Bucksport, Maine. His name, spelled correctly, is "Hincks", but the "C" was deleted when he joined...
Hinck and Hincks are surnames, and may refer to: Jon Hinck (born 1954), American environmentalist Carroll C. Hincks (1889–1964), federal judge in the...
trilingual Behistun inscription was completed by Henry Rawlinson and EdwardHincks. EdwardHincks discovered that Old Persian is partly a syllabary. For centuries...
Thomas Dix Hincks, a Presbyterian minister and scholar, and his wife Anne (née Boult). Two of his older brothers, EdwardHincks and William Hincks, followed...
the biblical account of their victory at the Battle of Gilboa. Since EdwardHincks and William Osburn Jr. in 1846, biblical scholars have connected the...
the Athenaeum announcing it". Hincks' letter was published by Athenaeum on the same day, entitled "Nimrud Obelisk". Hincks' identification is now the commonly...
Leemans, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, Emmanuel de Rougé, Samuel Birch, EdwardHincks, Luigi Vassalli, Émile Brugsch, Karl Richard Lepsius, Théodule Devéria...
trilingual Behistun Inscription was completed by Henry Rawlinson and EdwardHincks. EdwardHincks discovered that Old Persian is partly a syllabary. In 2023 it...
1802 and 1848. Class II proved more difficult to translate. In 1850, EdwardHincks published a paper showing that the Class II was not alphabetical, but...
language, and the final breakthrough in deciphering the language came from EdwardHincks, Henry Rawlinson and Jules Oppert in the middle of the 19th century...
Trinity. R. F. Foster (History and Political Science, 1969), historian. EdwardHincks (Classics, 1810), Assyriologist and orientalist. Norman Jeffares (Classics...
published in the 1850s and 1860s, most prominently publications by EdwardHincks, Austen Henry Layard and George Smith, slowly turned Sargon into a textbook...
Semitic Akkadian language, which were duly deciphered. By 1850, however, EdwardHincks came to suspect a non-Semitic origin for cuneiform. Semitic languages...
in Belfast Natural History Society’s museum at College Square North. EdwardHincks, a leading Egyptologist from Ireland, was present and deciphered the...
the Behistun inscription was completed by Henry Rawlinson and EdwardHincks. EdwardHincks discovered that Old Persian is partly a syllabary. The designations...
Hertford College, Oxford Ian Graham (BSc 1951), Mayanist archaeologist EdwardHincks, Orientalist Linda Hogan, fellow and Professor of Ecumenics Declan Kiberd...
Oliver Goldsmith Henry Grattan Veronica Guerin William Rowan Hamilton EdwardHincks Michael Roberts Westropp Nathaniel Hone the Younger Ludwig Hopf John...
(German-American, 1859–1925), archaeologist who carried out excavations in Iraq. EdwardHincks (Irish, 1792–1866), one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform...
advance the decipherment process, and many of them died early deaths. EdwardHincks, an Irish clergyman whose primary interest was the decipherment of cuneiform...
translated this in 1850 as "Yahua, son of Hubiri", a year later reverend EdwardHincks, suggested it refers to king Jehu of Israel (2 Kings 9:2 ff. Whilst...
also personal physician to King George II and a slave owner. Reverend EdwardHincks, a renowned Assyriologist and Egyptologist, was appointed Church of...
crucial in forwarding the decipherment of Mesopotamian cuneiform by EdwardHincks. After the decipherment of Assyrian cuneiform in the 1850s, Schulz's...
culture of Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). With Henry Rawlinson and EdwardHincks he shares the honour of having been one of the first decipherers of...
Ethiopian Studies in the Last 150 Years". In: K.J. Cathcart (ed.): The EdwardHincks Bicentenary Lectures. Dublin . pp. 117–35. Uhlig, Siegbert, et al. (eds...
on 11 February 1812." Kevin J. Cathcart, ed., The Correspondence of EdwardHincks: 1818-1849 (2007), p. 3: "He received his boyhood education from his...
wrote about Geography. Hincks was the father of three distinguished sons: (1) the Orientalist, EdwardHincks (2) William Hincks, Professor of Natural History...
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