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The Correspondence of Edward Hincks, v. 3 - 1857-1866 (Hardcover, New)
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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 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. Volume
III 1857-1866: Edward Hincks continued his scholarly activities
throughout the final decade of his life. He contributed one of four
translations of an inscription of Tiglath Pileser I independently
made in a bid to convince sceptical scholars that the decipherment
of Akkadian had been accomplished. There was a satisfactory end to
the disgraceful treatment of his translations of Akkadian texts
which had been prepared for the Trustees of the British Museum in
1854. In 1859 he began his friendly correspondence with the
Egyptologist Peter le Page Renouf of the Catholic University in
Dublin and in 1863 the Prussian King Wilhelm I conferred on him the
Ordre pour merite. During the last two years of his life he wrote
"Specimen Chapters of an Assyrian Grammar" which was published just
after his death.
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