Edwin A. Abbott
Edwin Abbott Abbott (December 20, 1838 -- 1926) was an English schoolmaster and theologian. He is best known as the author of the mathematical satire Flatland (1884).
He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honors in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. In 1862 he took orders. After holding masterships at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Clifton College, he succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876. In 1889, he retired and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits.
He also wrote
- Shakespearian Grammar (1870)
- Philochristus (1878)
- Onesimus (1882)
- A Life of Francis Bacon (1885)
- The Kernel and the Husk (1886)
- Philomythus (1891)
- The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman (1892)
- "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopędia Britannica.
- St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles (1898)
- Johannine Vocabulary (1905)
- Sitanus (1906)
- Johannine Grammar (1906)