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Claudius James Rich (cercanías de Dijon, 28 de marzo de 1787 - Shiraz, 5 de octubre de 1821) fue un explorador y viajero británico. 1 . Biografía.
Claudius James Rich (28 March 1787 – 5 October 1821) was a British Assyriologist, business agent, traveller and antiquarian scholar. [1]
Claudius James Rich was a British business agent in Baghdad whose examination of the site of Babylon (1811) is considered the starting point of Mesopotamian archaeology. Rich was a man of remarkable linguistic accomplishment; he knew Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac, and several modern.
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Claudius James Rich. primary name: primary name: Rich, Claudius James. Details. individual; official; painter/draughtsman; academic/intellectual; British; Male. Life dates. 28 March 1786-5 October 1821. Biography. Diplomat; antiquarian and amateur artist; collector.
27 de jun. de 2024 · Well versed in oriental languages and antiquities, and possessed of an 'insatiable thirst for seeing new countries', Claudius James Rich (1786/7–1821), the East India Company's resident at Baghdad, set out for Kurdistan in 1820 despite his delicate health.
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Rich, Claudius James, c.1786—1821. by Benjamin Colbert. Claudius James Rich was born near Dijon, Burgundy, on 28 March 1786 or 1787, probably the illegitimate son of Colonel Sir James Cockburn, fifth baronet (1723-1809; ODNB) and an unknown mother. Rich was Cockburn’s mother’s maiden name.
Claudius James Rich attempted to reconstruct its topography in the early nineteenth century. Ernst Herzfeld conducted systematic topographical research between 1903 and 1911, and archaeological excavations were first undertaken by an expedition in 1928–29 sponsored by the German Oriental Society (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft).
