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Rawlinson (GEORGE an English Orientalist)

GEORGE, an English Orientalist; born in Chadlington, England, Nov. 23, 1812; educated at Cambridge; preached the Bampton Lectures in 1859; was elected Camden Professor of Ancient History in 1861, and made a canon of Canterbury in 1872. He published a translation of Herodotus with a commentary (1858-1860); "The Five World" (1862-1867), followed by Sixth (1873) and the "Seventh Oriental Monarchy" (1876) "History of Ancient Egypt" (1881) "Egypt and Babylon" (1885) "Phoenicia" (1889) ; "Memoir of Gen. H. C. Rawlinson" (1898). He died in 1902.

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