Smith, George Adam

United Free Church of Scotland; b. at Calcutta, India, Oct. 19, 1856. He was educated at Edinburgh University (1873-1875; M.A., 1875) and New College, Edinburgh (1875-78), and the universities of Tubingen (1876) and Leipsic (1877). He then traveled in Egypt and Syria, and in 1880 became assistant minister at the West Free Church, Brechin, also being tutor in Hebrew in the Free Church College at Aberdeen in 1880-82. From 1882 to 1892 he was minister of Queen’s Cross Free Church, Aberdeen; became professor of Old-Testament language, literature, and theology in the United Free Church College, Glasgow, in 1892; and principal of Aberdeen University in 1909. He has traveled extensively in Palestine, and was Percy Turnbull Lecturer on Hebrew poetry at Johns Hopkins in 1896, Lyman Beecher Lecturer at Yale in 1899, and Jowett Lecturer in London in 1900. He has written Book of Isaiah (2 vols., London, 1888-90); The Preaching of the Old Testament to the Age (1893); Historical Geography of the Holy Land (1894); Book of the Twelve Prophets, commonly Called the Minor (2 vols., 1896-97); Life of Henry Drummond (1898); Modern Criticism and the Preaching of the Old Testament (Lyman Beecher lectures; 1901); Forgiveness of Sins, and Other Sermons (1904); and Jerusalem: The Topography, Economics, and History from the Earliest Times to A.D. 70 (2 vols., 1908).