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Edward Hincks (19 August 1792 – 3 December 1866) was an 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 .
Edward Hincks (19 de agosto de 1792 - 3 de diciembre de 1866) fue un asiriólogo irlandés y uno de los descifradores de la escritura cuneiforme mesopotámica. Biografía. Era hermano mayor de un distinguido ministro protestante, nació en Cork el 19 de agosto de 1792.
The identification of the Biblical king Jehu in this text was made by Hincks, who published his own translation of the text in December 1851. By the end of the 1850s, Hincks and Rawlinson had successfully provided a working decipherment of Mesopotamian cuneiform.
Edward Winslow Hincks (May 30, 1830 – February 14, 1894) was a career United States Army officer who served as a brigadier general during the American Civil War.
Edward Hincks fue un asiriólogo irlandés y uno de los descifradores de la escritura cuneiforme mesopotámica.
Edward Hincks. 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.
Pero las bases de la escritura cuneiforme y el método aplicado para descifrarla toparon con el escepticismo académico. Para disiparlo, la Royal Asiatic Society realizó una prueba en la que participaron cuatro asiriólogos: Hincks, Rawlinson, Oppert y Talbot.
