EDWARD HINCKS (1792-1866)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V13,
Page 476
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:EDWARD See also:HINCKS (1792-1866)
, See also:British assyriologist, was See also:born at See also:Cork, See also:Ireland,-and educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin
.
He took orders in the See also:Protestant See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church of Ireland, and was See also:rector of See also:Killyleagh, Down, from 1825 till his See also:death on the 3rd of See also:December 1866
.
See also:Hincks devoted his spare See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to the study of See also:hieroglyphics, and to the deciphering of the See also:cuneiform script (see CUNEIFORM), in which he was a See also:pioneer, working out contemporaneously with See also:Sir H
.
See also:Rawlinson, and independently of him, the See also:ancient See also:Persian vowel See also:system
.
He published a number of See also:original and scholarly papers on assyriological questions of the highest value, chiefly in the Transactions of the Royal Irish See also:Academy
.
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