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The Correspondence of Edward Hincks, v. 1 - 1818-1849 (Hardcover, New)
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The Correspondence of Edward Hincks, v. 1 - 1818-1849 (Hardcover, New)
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Edward Hincks (1792-1866), the Irish Assyriologist and one of the
decipherers 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 Middleton 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
language of Babylonia and Assyria, and its complicated cuneiform
writing system. Between 1846 and 1852, Hincks published a series of
highly significant papers by which he established for himself a
reputation of the first order as a decipherer. Most of the letters
in these volumes have not been previously published. Much of the
correspondence relates to nineteenth-century archaeological and
linguistic discoveries, but there are also letters concerned with
ecclesiastical affairs, the Famine and the Hincks family. The
letters in volume 1 cover the period from the 1820s when Hincks was
a young clergyman and scholar, applying himself assiduously to his
family and parish duties, and vigorously pursuing his study of the
ancient Egyptian language, to the years 1846-9 during which he
announced his epoch-making discoveries in the decipherment of
Akkadian and its cuneiform writing system. There are dozens of
letters from friends and colleagues, which include exchanges on a
variety of subjects and offer a fascinating picture of scholarly
and intellectual activity, as well as of the political and
ecclesiastical events of the time. Hincks' unique research never
diverted him from his religious and civic responsibilities,
especially during times of crisis like the Famine. Amongst Hincks'
correspondents were Samuel Birch, Franz Bopp, Friedrich Georg
Grotefend, William Rowan Hamilton, Christian Lassen, Austen Henry
Layard, Edwin Norris, George Cecil Renouard, and Peter le Page
Renouf. Volumes 2 and 3 will be published in 2008 and 2009
respectively.
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