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Smith (GEORGE an English)

GEORGE, an English Assyriologist; born in London, England, March 26, 1840. The importance of his contributions to our knowledge of Assyrian history and inscriptions is everywhere acknowledged. Part of his published works are: "The Chaldean Account of Genesis"; "Assyria from the Earliest Times Till the Fall of Nineveh" (1875); "Assyrian Discoveries" (1875), an account of his own travels and researches; "The Assyrian Babylonia," edited by A. H. Sayce (1877) "History of Sennacherib," edited by A. H. Sayce (1878). He died in Aleppo, Aug. 19, 1876.