Smith, George Adam, 1856-1942
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Name (Hebrew)
סמית, ג'ורג' אדם, 1856-1942
Name (Latin)
Smith, George Adam, 1856-1942
Name (Arabic)
سميث، جورج آدم، 1856-1942
Other forms of name
Adam Smith, George, 1856-1942
Smith, George Adam, Sir, 1856-1942
Date of birth
1856
Date of death
1942
Associated country
Great Britain
Occupation
Biblical scholars
College administrators
Mountaineers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- His The life of Henry Drummond ... 1898.
- Smith, Sir George Adam; Old Testament scholar and geographer, was born on 19 October 1856; born in Calcutta; Smith went to Cairo; he learned Arabic and travelled to Palestine for the first time in the spring of 1880; from 1883 Smith regularly visited Switzerland and he became an enthusiastic mountaineer; elected to the Alpine Club in 1886; from 1909 to 1935 Smith was principal of the University of Aberdeen; late in his life Smith adopted his second forename, Adam, as an additional surname, though he continued also to use and be referred to as "Smith" alone; in 1935 he and Lady Adam Smith retired to Sweethillocks, Balerno, near Edinburgh, where he died on 3 March 1942 ( (Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 16 Feb., 2017) )
- The war, the nation and the church, 1916:t.p. (Sir George Adam Smith, M.A., D.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Principal and Vice-chancellor of the University of Aberdeen)
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