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When did Adam Smith become professor of logic at the University of Glasgow?
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Adam Smith, paste medallion by James Tassie, 1787; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
Adam Smith was appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow in 1751, at the age of 27. He held this position for only one year before transferring to the professorship of moral philosophy in 1752.1