Reverend Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (26 March 1829 – 18 December 1913) was an
Irish scholar and educator.
Biography
Abbott was born in
Dublin and was educated at
Trinity College. He was elected a scholar in 1848, graduated in 1851 as a senior moderator in mathematics and was made a fellow of the college in 1854.[1] He obtained an M.A. and a D.Litt. (1891) from Trinity, and was ordained a minister in the
Church of Ireland.
He occupied the
chair of moral philosophy (1867–72), of biblical Greek (1875–88), and of Hebrew (1879–1900).[3][4] In 1887 he was elected librarian in Trinity and, in 1900, completed catalogues of the library's manuscript holdings.[5] He became a senior fellow in 1897. He was one of a group of Irish scholars, including
J. P. Mahaffy, who made significant contributions to the dissemination and study of the works of
Immanuel Kant. His translation of Kant's Critique of Practical Reason remained the standard English version of the text well into the 20th century.[6]