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Arthur John Booth
An Anglo-Irish writer with wide-ranging interests, he wrote on early socialism as well as the ancient Near East. His books move from Robert Owen and Saint-Simon to the decipherment of cuneiform inscriptions, making him an unexpectedly versatile nineteenth-century voice.
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The discovery and decipherment of the trilingual cuneiform inscriptions
by Arthur John Booth
About the author
Born in Dublin around 1842, he was an Anglo-Irish writer who later died on August 19, 1913, at Ryde. The available records are quite sparse, but they consistently point to a learned writer whose work ranged across history, ideas, and ancient civilizations.
His known books include Robert Owen, the Founder of Socialism in England (1869), Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism (1871), The Pre-Semitic Civilisation of Western Asia, and The Discovery and Decipherment of the Trilingual Cuneiform Inscriptions (1902). Taken together, they show a strong interest in both the history of social thought and the deep past of the ancient world.
Because so little biographical detail is readily confirmed, his work remains the clearest guide to his character: curious, scholarly, and drawn to big subjects that connect ideas, history, and language across cultures.