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After studying for summer semesters as a postgraduate at the [[University of Tübingen]] (1876) and the [[University of Leipzig]] (1878) and travelling in [[Egypt]] and [[Syria]]. He was ordained into the [[Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900)|Free Church of Scotland]] in 1882 and served at the Queen's Cross Free Church in [[Aberdeen]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}}</ref>
In 1892 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew<ref>
In 1909 he was appointed Principal and Vice Chancellor of the [[University of Aberdeen]], a post he held until his retirement in 1935. He was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] in 1916, and was knighted in the same year<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=29483 |date=22 February 1916 |pages=
He served as [[Moderator of the General Assembly]] of the [[United Free Church of Scotland]] in 1916-17.<ref>These facts of his life are largely drawn from S.A. Cook,'George Adam Smith 1856-1942', ''Proceedings of the British Academy'', vol.xxviii (London: Oxford University Press).</ref> In 1917 he was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]]. His proposers were [[John Horne]], [[Cargill Gilston Knott]], [[Ben Peach]] and [[John Sutherland Black]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002|date=July 2006|publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|isbn=0 902 198 84 X|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp2.pdf}}</ref>
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