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William Robertson Smith FRSE (8 November 1846 – 31 March 1894) was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica.
William Robertson Smith was a Scottish Semitic scholar, encyclopaedist, and student of comparative religion and social anthropology. Smith was ordained a minister in 1870 on his appointment as professor of Oriental languages and Old Testament exegesis at the Free Church College of Aberdeen.
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William Robertson Smith (November 8, 1846 – March 31, 1894) was a Scottish philologist, anthropologist, and Biblical critic. He is best known for his work on the Encyclopædia Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites (1889), which is considered a foundational text in the comparative study of religion .
May 9, 2018 · Smith, William Robertson. Analysis of religion. Kinship and marriage. WORKS BY SMITH. SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY. William Robertson Smith(1846–1894) was born in Scotland, the son of a distinguishedscholar and minister in the Free Church of Scotland.
William Robertson Smith, Christ’s College Cambridge. One can say rightly that Robertson Smith was valued highly by all his students, colleagues and friends. Only his enemies tried to blemish his name, and sometimes didn’t abide by the rules of fairness. Yet Robertson Smith was able to fight back too.
Robertson Smith died on 31st May 1894 at the age of 47. His body was transported by train to Keig, and laid to rest in the graveyard of the parish church there, the simple ceremony witnessed by countless friends and acquaintances.
The name of William Robertson Smith (1 846-94) is familiar to students of European intellectual history in part because it appears with notable frequency. inaclassicofmodemsocialtheory-EmileDurkheim'sLesFormesilementaires. de la vie religieuse (1912).
