A history of Babylonia and Assyria . Sir Henry C. RawlinsonBorn at Chadlington, Oxon, April 11, 1810, in1827 went out to India; political agent at Kanda-har, 1840; long resident in Baghdad; envoy andminister plenipotentiary in Persia, 1859; member ofParliament, 1865-1868; trustee of the British Mu-seum, 1876; , 1889; Baronet, 1891; died inLondon March 5, 18C5, after a marvelously fulllife. ?£[ ;bvfl9 ;bxibfi§Ba: ai baebiasn §noI ;0£8I <w{ Kiel ..toiioiBti jUeoJ ;. :o\ci .rai/9g. so GROTEFEND AND KAWLINSON 81 his services were of extraordinary value, and metwith hearty recogniti
A history of Babylonia and Assyria . Sir Henry C. RawlinsonBorn at Chadlington, Oxon, April 11, 1810, in1827 went out to India; political agent at Kanda-har, 1840; long resident in Baghdad; envoy andminister plenipotentiary in Persia, 1859; member ofParliament, 1865-1868; trustee of the British Mu-seum, 1876; , 1889; Baronet, 1891; died inLondon March 5, 18C5, after a marvelously fulllife. ?£[ ;bvfl9 ;bxibfi§Ba: ai baebiasn §noI ;0£8I <w{ Kiel ..toiioiBti jUeoJ ;. :o\ci .rai/9g. so GROTEFEND AND KAWLINSON 81 his services were of extraordinary value, and metwith hearty recognition. It was in Persia, whileengaged in the laborious task of whipping semi-barbarous masses of men into the severe discip-line of the soldiers life, that the attention ofRawlinson was attracted by some first that roused an interest in him werethose at Hamadan, which he copied with greatcare. This was in the year 1835, at a time whena number of European scholars were earnestlytrying to decipher the inscriptions from Persep-olis. Of all this eager work Rawlinson knewcomparatively little. It is impossible now to de-termine exactly when he first secured knowledgeof Grotefends work, for Norris, the secretary ofthe Royal Asiatic Society, has left us no recordof when he first sent copies of Grotefends esayssto the far-distant decipherer. Whatever wassent in the beginning, it is quite clear that Raw-linson worked largely independently for a con-siderable time. He had certainly b
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