Author:Henry Creswicke Rawlinson

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Henry Creswicke Rawlinson (1810–1895)

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British officer, archaeologist, and Assyriologist

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "H. C. R."

Henry Creswicke Rawlinson

Works

• The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun (1846-51)
• A Commentary on the Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylon and Assyria (1850)
• Outline of the History of Assyria (1852)
• Notes on the Early History of Babylonia (1854)
• A translation of History by Herodotus, with John Gardner Wilkinson and George Rawlinson, 1858-1860.
• England and Russia in the East (1875)
• Articles on "Baghdad", "the Euphrates", and "Kurdistan" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
• "Bagdad (city)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (updated by John Punnett Peters)
• "Euphrates," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Isfahān," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (History)
• "Kūrdistān," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Works about Rawlinson

• "Rawlinson, Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Obituary: Henry Creswicke Rawlinson" in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (May 1895)
• "Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Rawlinson, Sir Henry Creswicke," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)