Abbe Ernst Karl (23. 1. 1840, Ayzenakh – 14. I. 1905, Yena, Germaniya), fizik va astronomi nemis, ikhtirokori dilatometri interferensioni va refraktometr. Abbe dar Donishgohi Yena ba sifati dotsent (az 1863) va professori (az 1870) faoliyat namuda, dar korhoi ilmi-amalii korkhonahoi optikii Karl Seys ishtirok mekard. Soli 1872 nazariyai paydoishi tasvirro asosnok karda, namudhoi gunoguni afzori optikiro ikhtiro kardaast, ki dar bisyor rasadkhonahoi chakon istifoda gardidaand.
Abbe dar ilmi fizika mafhumi «aperturai adadi»- ro vorid kard, ki on aloqamandii aperturai haqiqii obektivro bo nishondihandai inkisori shisha va darozii mavji rushioi ifoda mekunad. Abbe yakchand navi shishahoi optikiro sokhtaast. Abbe soli 1870 rasadkhonai Yenaro tasis doda, solhoi 1877 – 1890 sarvari on bud. Soli 1884 hamrohi Seys laboratoriyai khimiyavii shisharo sozmon doda, soli 1886 linzahoi apokhromatiro sokht, ki bo nomi «kondensorhoi Abbe» mashhurand. Abbe uzvi vobastai AI Berlin (1896), uzvi khorijii AI Avstriya (1900), uzvi fakhrii AI Saksoniya (1901) bud. Bo ordeni «Shohini safed»-i Prussiya (darajai I) sarfaroz gardidaast.