Norris, Edwin, 1795-1872
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Birth Date
- 1795-10-24
Death Date
- 1872-12-10
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- Organization: East India Company
- Organization: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Birth Place
- Taunton (England)
Associated Language
- English
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- found: His Memoirs on the Scythic version of the Behistun inscription, 1853:t.p. (Edwin Norris)
- found: PREMARC file(hdg: Norris, Edwin, 1795-1872)
- found: Wikipedia, viewed February 18, 2021(Edwin Norris, October 24, 1795 - December 10, 1872 ; born in Taunton, Somerset, England ; was a British philologist, linguist and intrepid orientalist who wrote or compiled numerous works on the languages of Asia and Africa; his best-known works are his uncompleted Assyrian Dictionary and his translation and annotation of the three plays of the Cornish Ordinalia ; served as a clerk for the East India House ; assistant secretary in the Royal Asiatic Society ; annotated the Cornish language manuscript from the Middle Ages "three plays of the Ordinalia" ; also worked on Assyrian culture)
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- 1998-04-22: new
- 2021-08-21: revised
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