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Edward Hincks

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Gender Male
Death158 years ago
Date of birth August 19,1792
Zodiac sign Leo
Born Cork
Ireland
Date of died December 3,1866
DiedKillyleagh
United Kingdom
ParentsThomas Dix Hincks
Siblings Francis Hincks
Education Trinity College Dublin
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Edward Hincks Life story


The Reverend Edward Hincks M. A. , D. D. , was an Anglo-Irish clergyman, best remembered as an Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform. He was one of the three men known as the "holy trinity of cuneiform", with Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson and Jules Oppert.

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