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Preserved Smith (July 22 1880 – May 15 1941) was an American historian of the Protestant Reformation.He was the son of Henry Preserved Smith a noted scholar of the Old Testament and inherited his name from a line of Puritan ancestors stretching back to the 17th century. He attended Amherst College and Columbia University where he received his Ph.D. in 1907 and continued studies at the Sorbonne and the University of Berlin.