Rawlinson and Jules Oppert. Edward Hincks was born in Cork on 19 August 1792. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas Dix Hincks, a distinguished Protestant...
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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...
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Hinck and Hincks are surnames, and may refer to: Jon Hinck (born 1954), American environmentalist Carroll C. Hincks (1889–1964), federal judge in the...
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trilingual Behistun inscription was completed by Henry Rawlinson and Edward Hincks. Edward Hincks discovered that Old Persian is partly a syllabary. For centuries...
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Thomas Dix Hincks, a Presbyterian minister and scholar, and his wife Anne (née Boult). Two of his older brothers, Edward Hincks and William Hincks, followed...
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the biblical account of their victory at the Battle of Gilboa. Since Edward Hincks and William Osburn Jr. in 1846, biblical scholars have connected the...
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Gómez-Moreno Northeastern Iberian script James Prinsep Brahmi, Kharosthi Edward Hincks Mesopotamian Cuneiform Bedřich Hrozný Hittite Cuneiform Vilhelm Thomsen...
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the Athenaeum announcing it". Hincks' letter was published by Athenaeum on the same day, entitled "Nimrud Obelisk". Hincks' identification is now the commonly...
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1802 and 1848. Class II proved more difficult to translate. In 1850, Edward Hincks published a paper showing that the Class II was not alphabetical, but...
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language, and the final breakthrough in deciphering the language came from Edward Hincks, Henry Rawlinson and Jules Oppert in the middle of the 19th century...
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trilingual Behistun Inscription was completed by Henry Rawlinson and Edward Hincks. Edward Hincks discovered that Old Persian is partly a syllabary. In 2023 it...
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Leemans, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, Emmanuel de Rougé, Samuel Birch, Edward Hincks, Luigi Vassalli, Émile Brugsch, Karl Richard Lepsius, Théodule Devéria...
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the Behistun inscription was completed by Henry Rawlinson and Edward Hincks. Edward Hincks discovered that Old Persian is partly a syllabary. The designations...
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Trinity. R. F. Foster (History and Political Science, 1969), historian. Edward Hincks (Classics, 1810), Assyriologist and orientalist. Norman Jeffares (Classics...
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in Belfast Natural History Society’s museum at College Square North. Edward Hincks, a leading Egyptologist from Ireland, was present and deciphered the...
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published in the 1850s and 1860s, most prominently publications by Edward Hincks, Austen Henry Layard and George Smith, slowly turned Sargon into a textbook...
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(German-American, 1859–1925), archaeologist who carried out excavations in Iraq. Edward Hincks (Irish, 1792–1866), one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform...
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Semitic Akkadian language, which were duly deciphered. By 1850, however, Edward Hincks came to suspect a non-Semitic origin for cuneiform. Semitic languages...
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translated this in 1850 as "Yahua, son of Hubiri", a year later reverend Edward Hincks, suggested it refers to king Jehu of Israel (2 Kings 9:2 ff. Whilst...
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also personal physician to King George II and a slave owner. Reverend Edward Hincks, a renowned Assyriologist and Egyptologist, was appointed Church of...
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crucial in forwarding the decipherment of Mesopotamian cuneiform by Edward Hincks. After the decipherment of Assyrian cuneiform in the 1850s, Schulz's...
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advance the decipherment process, and many of them died early deaths. Edward Hincks, an Irish clergyman whose primary interest was the decipherment of cuneiform...
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Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster Veronica Guerin William Rowan Hamilton Edward Hincks Michael Roberts Westropp Nathaniel Hone the Younger Ludwig Hopf John...
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William Fitzgerald (1814–1883), Church of Ireland bishop of Killaloe Edward Hincks (1792–1866), clergyman and Assyriologist George Green Loane (1865–1945)...
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culture of Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). With Henry Rawlinson and Edward Hincks he shares the honour of having been one of the first decipherers of...
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Hertford College, Oxford Ian Graham (BSc 1951), Mayanist archaeologist Edward Hincks, Orientalist Linda Hogan, fellow and Professor of Ecumenics Declan Kiberd...
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Ethiopian Studies in the Last 150 Years". In: K.J. Cathcart (ed.): The Edward Hincks Bicentenary Lectures. Dublin . pp. 117–35. Uhlig, Siegbert, et al. (eds...
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Robert Patterson, Robert Simms, Francis Archer, the Thomas Dix Hincks, Edward Hincks and Edmund Getty. Five years later in 1826 Alexander Henry Haliday...
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, ARA (/bɜːrnˈdʒoʊnz/; 28 August, 1833 – 17 June, 1898) was an English painter and designer associated with the...
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wrote about Geography. Hincks was the father of three distinguished sons: (1) the Orientalist, Edward Hincks (2) William Hincks, Professor of Natural History...
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