Identifier: historyofbaby01roge (find matches)
Title: A history of Babylonia and Assyria
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Rogers, Robert William
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Publisher: New York : Abingdon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Georg Friedrich GrotefendPhilologian and DeciphererBorn in Mlinden, Germany. June 9, 1775, studiedin Gbttingen, taught there in the Gymnasium until1806, when he went to a similar post in Frankforton the Main, and from 1821 to 1847 was Director ofthe Lyceum in Hanover, where he died December15, 1853. Apart from his distinguished contribu-tions to Persian decipherment he was chiefly knownas a successful teacher of the classics. CHAPTER II GROTEFEND AND RAWLINSON It were difficult, if not impossible, to definethe qualities of mind which must inhere in thedecipherer of a forgotten language. He is notnecessarily a great scholar, though great scholarshave been successful decipherers. He may knowbut little of the languages that are cognate withthe one whose secrets he is trying to unravel. Hemay indeed know nothing of them, as has severaltimes been the case. But the patience, the per-sistence, the power of combination, the divinegift of insight, the historical sense, the feeling forarchaeolo

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