William Robertson Smith
1846–94
Theologian and Semitic scholar. MA, Aberdeen, 1865. Chair of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis, Aberdeen Free Church College, 1870–81. Editor-in-chief, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1881. Lord almoner’s professor of Arabic, Cambridge, 1883–6; Sir Thomas Adams professor of Arabic, 1889.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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