Edward Hincks
Decipherer
Edward Hincks 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... Wikipedia
Born: August 19, 1792, Cork, Ireland
Died: December 3, 1866 (age 74 years), Killyleagh, United Kingdom
Parents: Thomas Dix Hincks