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The Correspondence of Edward Hincks: Volume III, 1857-1866

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Edward Hincks (1792-1866), the Irish Assyriologist and decipherer of Mesopotamian cuneiform, was born in Cork and spent forty years of his life at Killyleagh, Co. Down, where he was the Church of Ireland Rector. He was educated at Midleton College, Co. Cork and Trinity College, Dublin, where he was an exceptionally gifted student. With the decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by Jean Francois Champollion in 1822, Hincks became one of that first group of scholars to contribute to the elucidation of the language, chronology and religion of ancient Egypt. But his most notable achievement was the decipherment of Akkadian, the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University College Dublin Press Dublin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781904558729
SKU
V9781904558729
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About Kevin J Cathcart (Editor)
Kevin J. Cathcart is Emeritus Professor of Near Eastern Languages, University College Dublin, and the editor of The Letters of Peter le Page Renouf (4 vols, UCD Press, 2002-4)

Reviews for The Correspondence of Edward Hincks: Volume III, 1857-1866
'Man sagt nicht zu viel, wenn man ihn [Hincks] den eigentlichen Entzifferer der dritten Keilschriftgattung nennt.' [translation] 'One is not saying too much, if one calls Hincks the true decipherer of Assyrian-Babylonian cuneiform.' Julius Wellhausen 1876 'Hincks was a scholar of international significance in the nineteenth century. He was an expert on ancient Assyria and deciphered the Mesopotamian cuneiform ... Read more

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