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BIRCH, SAMUEL (1813–1885)

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BIRCH, See also:SAMUEL (1813–1885) , See also:English Egyptologist and See also:antiquary, was See also:born on the 3rd of See also:November 1813, being the son of the See also:rector of St See also:Mary Woolnoth, See also:London. From an See also:early See also:age he manifested a tendency to the study of out-of-the-way subjects, and after a brief employment in the See also:Record See also:Office obtained in 1836 an See also:appointment in the antiquities See also:department of the See also:British Museum on See also:account of his knowledge of See also:Chinese. He soon extended his researches to See also:Egyptian, and when the cumbrous department came to be divided he was appointed to the See also:charge of the Egyptian and See also:Assyrian See also:branch. In the latter See also:language he had assistance, but for many years there was only one other See also:person in the institution—in a different department—who knew anything of See also:ancient Egyptian, and the entire arrangement of the department devolved upon Birch. He found See also:time nevertheless for Egyptological See also:work of the highest value, including a hieroglyphical See also:grammar and See also:dictionary, See also:translations of The See also:Book of the Dead and the See also:Harris See also:papyrus, and numerous catalogues and guides. He further wrote what was See also:long a See also:standard See also:history of pottery, investigated the Cypriote syllabary, and proved by various publications that he had not lost his old See also:interest in Chinese. Paradoxical in many of his views on things in See also:general, he was See also:sound and cautious as a philologist; while learned and laborious, he possessed much of the instinctive See also:divination of See also:genius. He died on the 27th of See also:December 1885.

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