Talk:William Robertson Smith

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not notable as a physicist - but a very important theologian--Sandy Scott 08:58, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, edited by 'William Smith'

The website, in the footnote to the book recently posted to the article, seems to say it was written in 1848, but not published until 1873. Our author, who called himself William Robertson Smith, was born in 1846. He was a professor of Hebrew at Aberdeen Free Church College starting in 1870. WRS was was a scholar of the Bible, and a student of languages, but primarily of semitic languages, Hebrew and Arabic, not Greek and Latin. I don't find this book listed, as are his other books, in the index to the 1912 biography of WRS by Black and Chrystal. Thus, I conclude that it is very unlikely that the Dictionary was edited by the article's subject, William Robertson Smith. There are similarities, but not a match. Elfelix (talk) 06:42, 14 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]