Category:George Smith (assyriologist)

**George Smith**
	English Assyriologist (1840–1876)
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Name in native language	George Smith;
Date of birth	26 March 1840; Chelsea
Date of death	19 August 1876; Aleppo (Syria)
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	dysentery;
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
Occupation	anthropologist; archaeologist; assyriologist; writer; orientalist;
Employer	British Museum;
Field of work	Assyriology;
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	Q1009506; ISNI: 0000000116681179; VIAF ID: 70959268; GND ID: 137454198; Library of Congress authority ID: no92032602; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 151512403; IdRef ID: 078090938; SELIBR ID: 285160; National Library of Israel ID (old): 000123750; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 073908746; NUKAT ID: n2013145173; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID: 25806; Libris-URI: sq47bv5b3c4r1zv; PLWABN ID: 9810643618005606; J9U ID: 987007268136205171; SBN author ID: LO1V180697; Open Library ID: OL2668240A, OL2509659A
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English: George Smith (Chelsea March 26, 1840 – August 19, 1876), was a pioneering English Assyriologist who first discovered and translated the Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest-known written work of literature.