Edwin A. Abbott (1838–1926)
Forfatter af Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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Edwin A. Abbott was born December 20, 1838. He attended City of London School and Cambridge, where he was an honor student in the classics. Following the career path of his father, Abbott was ordained an Anglican minister. Later he rejected a career as a clergyman and at the age of twenty-six, he vis mere returned to City of London School as Headmaster, a position he held for twenty-five years. Always curious about views from varying perspectives, he promoted a liberal attitude toward people of differing backgrounds. As president of the Teachers Training Society, for example, he lobbied for access to university education for women. He resigned as Headmaster at age fifty-three in protest of proposed changes to the mission of the school. Abbott wrote more than fifty books on widely different topics. He had published two series of his sermons while at Cambridge, a book on Shakespearean grammar, and accounts of his efforts to admit women to higher education. His most notable work is Flatland, written in 1884. Flatland is still widely read by both mathematicians and science-fiction readers because of its portrayal of the idea of higher dimensions. The narrator, a two-dimensional square called A Square happens into a three-dimensional world where he gains a wider vision into objects in his two-dimensional home. The book was a favorite with C. S. Lewis. Abbott died on October 12, 1926. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Edwin A. Abbott
A Shakespearian Grammar: An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Differences Between Elizabethan and Modern English (1897) 82 eksemplarer
Johannine Vocabulary: A Comparison of the Words of the Fourth Gospel with Those of the Three (1905) 13 eksemplarer
The Common Tradition of the Synoptic Gospels in the Text of the Revised Version (2010) 5 eksemplarer
The fourfold Gospel. Section 2, The beginning 2 eksemplarer
The kernel and the husk 1 eksemplar
The fourfold Gospel. Section 1, Introduction 1 eksemplar
Abbott's First Latin Book 1 eksemplar
A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope 1 eksemplar
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- 1838-12-20
- Dødsdag
- 1926-10-12
- Begravelsessted
- Hampstead Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- England, UK
- Fødested
- London, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Hampstead, London, England, UK
- Dødsårsag
- influenza
old age - Bopæl
- London, England, UK
- Uddannelse
- City of London School
University of Cambridge (BA|1861|MA|1864 - St John's College) - Erhverv
- teacher
head teacher
theologian
cleric (Anglican priest) - Organisationer
- King Edward School
City of London School
Cambridge University
Church of England - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Fellow, British Academy (1913)
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