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EDWARD HINCKS (1792-1866)

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EDWARD
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HINCKS (1792-1866)  ,
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British assyriologist, was
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born at
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Cork,
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Ireland,-and educated at Trinity
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College,
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Dublin . He took orders in the
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Protestant
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Church of Ireland, and was
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rector of
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Killyleagh, Down, from 1825 till his
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death on the 3rd of
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December 1866 .
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Hincks devoted his spare
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time to the study of
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hieroglyphics, and to the deciphering of the
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cuneiform script (see CUNEIFORM), in which he was a
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pioneer, working out contemporaneously with
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Sir H .
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Rawlinson, and independently of him, the
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ancient
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Persian vowel
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system . He published a number of
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original and scholarly papers on assyriological questions of the highest value, chiefly in the Transactions of the Royal Irish
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Academy .

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