Everything about Edwin Norris totally explained
Edwin Norris (
October 24,
1795 -
1872) was a
British philologist,
linguist and intrepid
orientalist who authored numerous works on languages of Asia and Africa and his most famous works include his uncompleted Assyrian Dictionary and his translation and annotation of the three plays of the
Ordinalia.
He was born in
Taunton England on the 24th of October 1795 and served as a Clerk for the
East India House and was also an assistant secretary in the
Royal Asiatic Society during the 1830s. He translated and annotated the
Cornish language manuscripts from the Middle Ages known as the 'three plays of the Ordinalia' which is one of the most important relics of the
Celtic dialect of Cornish, published in 1859 by the Oxford University Press as "Ancient Cornish Drama" it's one of the more recognized aspects of his work. He also worked on but never completed the Assyrian Dictionary, one of his more well known works outside Cornwall and widely considered a landmark in the history of
cuneiform. The work was meant to further the study of the cuneiform inscriptions of
Assyria and
Babylonia but was unfinished at the time of his death in 1872.
Famous works
- The Ancient Cornish Drama, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1859
Assyrian Dictionary, 3 volumes, 1868-72Further Information
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