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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 (Aberdeenshire, 8 de Novembro de 1846 – Cambridge, 31 de Março de 1894) foi um orientalista escocês, estudioso do Antigo Testamento, professor de teologia e ministro da Igreja Livre da Escócia. Foi um dos editores da Encyclopædia Britannica.
9 de abr. de 2024 · Hebrew Bible. Old Testament. comparative religion. religion. William Robertson Smith (born Nov. 8, 1846, Keig, Aberdeenshire, Scot.—died March 31, 1894, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Eng.) was a Scottish Semitic scholar, encyclopaedist, and student of comparative religion and social anthropology.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
At this website you will find a short biography and a number of projects dedicated to William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) and other members of that remarkably talented Scottish family. Born in Keig in rural Aberdeenshire, Robertson Smith became a crucial figure in the development of advanced biblical criticism towards the end of the nineteenth ...
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. He is credited as one who ...
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. Later it was to be the Free Church which erected his tombstone and, later still, it was the United Free Church ...
Yet Robertson Smith’s stay in Scotland was only to be of limited duration. When in 1882 Professor Palmer, Reader of Arabic at Cambridge University, was murdered in Palestine, Robertson Smith was encouraged by William Wright, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge and already a close associate, to apply for the vacant position.
