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George Smith
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George Smith was a male anthropologist, archaeologist, Assyriologist, and writer who held citizenship in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was employed by the British Museum and specialized in the field of Assyriology. Smith wrote in the English language and was capable of speaking and writing in both English and German.
Born in Chelsea in 1840, Smith died in Aleppo in 1876. His death resulted from dysentery and was classified as natural causes. His life and work have been documented in several sources, including the Nordisk familjebok, the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, and the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Family name
- Smith
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Chelsea
- Place of death
- Aleppo
- Occupation
- orientalist
- Employer
- British Museum
- Languages spoken
- German
- Image
- Mr. George Smith, the man who transliterated and read the so-called the Babylonian Flood Story of Tablet XI.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1840-03-26
- date of death
- 1876-08-19
- cause of death
- dysentery
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- George Smith (assyriologist)
- name in native language
- George Smith
- writing language
- English language
Sources (1)
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to George Smith, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
The Assyrian Eponym canon; containing translations of the documents, and an account of the evidence, on the comparative chronology of the Assyrian and Jewish kingdoms, from the death of Solomon to Nebuchadnezzar
Assyrian discoveries : an account of explorations and discoveries on the site of Niniveh, during 1873 and 1874