| LC control no. | n 98037528 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Norris, Edwin, 1795-1872 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Birth date | 1795-10-24 |
| Death date | 1872-12-10 |
| Place of birth | Taunton (England) |
| Field of activity | Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian Language and languages Philology |
| Affiliation | East India Company Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Profession or occupation | Philologists Asianists Linguists |
| Found in | His Memoirs on the Scythic version of the Behistun inscription, 1853: t.p. (Edwin Norris) PREMARC file (hdg: Norris, Edwin, 1795-1872) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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