A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Abbott, George Frederick

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Abbott, George Frederick, B.A., Hellenist, Knight Commander of the Hellenic Order of the Redeemer. Ed. Cambridge (Emmanuel College), where he was prizeman in Greek. In 1900-1901 he investigated the folklore of Macedonia on behalf of his University, and he published the results in his Macedonian Folklore (1903). He has since written numerous volumes on Greece and Turkey, and his work has been honoured with a title by the Greek Government. His Philosophy of a Don (1911) contains much caustic and entertaining Rationalism. He deprecates aggressiveness on the genial ground that "the actual Ruler of the Universe compares very favourably with some of his predecessors " (p. 31).