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GEORGE ADAM SMITH (1856- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 261 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE ADAM SMITH (1856- )  , Scottish divine, was born in
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Calcutta on the 19th of
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October 1856, where his
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father, George Smith, C.I.E., was then
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principal of the Doveton College . He was educated at
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Edinburgh in the Royal High School, the University and New College . After studying at
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Tubingen and
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Leipzig and travelling in
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Egypt and
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Syria, he entered the
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ministry of the
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Free Church of Scotland and was appointed professor of Old Testament subjects in the Free Church College at
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Glasgow 1892 . In 1909 he was appointed principal of the University of Aberdeen . Among his
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works are The
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Book of Isaiah (2 vols., 1888–189o) ; The Book of the Twelve Prophets (2 vols., 1876–1877) ;
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Historical Geography of the
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Holy
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Land (1894) ; Jerusalem (2 vols., 1907); The Preaching of the Old Testament to the Age (1893); The
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Life of Henry Drummond (1898) .

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