Norman Lockhart Walker

Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

• Author(s): Samuel Austin Allibone

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1896
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• Publisher: Unknown

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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1884
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Proceedings

• Author(s): Scotland free church, gen. assembly

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1851
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The American Catalogue

• Categories: American literature

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1896
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• Publisher: Unknown

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William Robertson Smith

• Author(s): Bernhard Maier

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2009
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• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

William Robertson Smith (1846-1894) was successively the embattled champion of the emergent higher criticism as applied to the Old Testament, chief editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and Professor of Arabic at Cambridge University. Today he is acknowledged to have been a pioneering figure in both social anthropology and the study of comparative religion, deeply influencing the thinking of J. G. Frazer, Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud. The first full-length biography of Robertson Smith to be published for almost a hundred years, this text makes use of hitherto unknown material preserved by the Smith family and draws upon the extensive range of correspondence between Smith and such schol...