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Edward Hincks

[English] Edward Hincks (b. 1792 in Cork, Ireland; d. 1866 in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland) was an Irish Assyriologist and one of the earliest decipherer of cuneiform.

[Deutsch] Edward Hincks (geb. 1792 in Cork, Irland; gest. 1866 in Killyleagh, Nordirland) war ein irischer Assyriologe und einer der frühesten Entzifferer der Keilschrift.

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Irish Assyriologist (1792-1866)

Born	19 August 1792
Died	3 December 1866

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On the polyphony of the Assyrio-Babylonian cuneiform writing: a letter to Professor Renouf

by Edward Hincks First published in 1863
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On the Khorsabad Inscriptions

by Edward Hincks First published in 1850
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The correspondence of Edward Hincks

by Edward Hincks First published in 2007
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What is to be done with the tithes in Ireland?: the question answered

by Edward Hincks First published in 1832
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The Egyptian dynasties of Manetho

by Edward Hincks First published in 1863
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On the Polyphony of the Assyrio-Babylonian Cuneiform Writing: A Letter to Professot Renouf

by Edward Hincks First published in 1863
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On the various years and months in use among the Egyptians

by Edward Hincks First published in 1865
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On the Assyrio-Babylonian phonetic characters

by Edward Hincks First published in 1986
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On the Assyrio-Babylonian measures of time

by Edward Hincks First published in 1865
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The Edward Hincks bicentenary lectures

by Edward Hincks and Kevin J. Cathcart First published in 1994
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On the inscriptions at Van

by Edward Hincks First published in 1848
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Church education, not the Church education society: being an attempt to prove that an Irish clergyman having a school under his control ought, on church principles, to connect it with the national board, rather than with the Church education society

by Edward Hincks First published in 1844
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Buonaparte: a poem

by Edward Hincks First published in 1816
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A grammar of the Hebrew language

by Edward Hincks First published in 1832
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An attempt to ascertain the number, names, and powers, of the letters of the hieroglyphic or ancient Egyptian alphabet

by Edward Hincks First published in 1847
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God's work & Satan's counter-works, as now carried on in the north of Ireland: a sermon, preached in Killyleagh Church, on Sunday, 31st July, 1859

by Edward Hincks First published in 1859
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On the First and Second Kinds of Persepolitan Writing + On the three Kinds of Persepolitan Writing, and on the Mode of expressing Numerals in Cuneatic Characters: From The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. XXI, Part I + II

by Edward Hincks First published in 1846
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On the defacement of divine and royal names on Egyptian monuments.

by Edward Hincks First published in 1846
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Specimen chapters of an Assyrian grammar

by Edward Hincks First published in 1866
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On the years and cycles used by the ancient Egyptians

by Edward Hincks First published in 1838
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Irish Assyriologist (1792-1866)

Born	19 August 1792
Died	3 December 1866

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OLID: OL4486184A
ISNI: 0000000063195694
Library of Congress Names: n88096494
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): NAPV128808
VIAF: 62328869
Wikidata: Q454770
Inventaire.io: wd:Q454770

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