The New International Encyclopædia/Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill

ABBOTT, Thomas Kingsmill (1829—). An Irish scholar. He was born at Dublin and was educated at Trinity College, where he afterward occupied the chair of moral philosophy (1867- 72), of biblical Greek (1875-88), and of Hebrew (after 1879). He wrote the following books: The Elements of Logic (third edition, 1895); Essays, chiefly on the original texts of the Old and New Testaments (1892); A Commentary on Ephesians and Colossians (1897); a translation of Kant's Ethics, with a memoir, and Kant's Introduction to Logic (fifth edition, 1878).