Edwin Norris
British philologist and orientalist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the U.S. politician (1865-1924), see Edwin L. Norris.
Edwin Norris (24 October 1795 – 10 December 1872)[1][2] was a British philologist, linguist and intrepid orientalist who wrote or compiled numerous works on the languages of Asia and Africa. His best-known works are his uncompleted Assyrian Dictionary and his translation and annotation of the three plays of the Cornish Ordinalia.