Carl Abel

For the composer, see Carl Friedrich Abel.

Carl Abel (25 November 1837 – 1906) was a German comparative philologist from Berlin who wrote Linguistic Essays in 1880. Abel also acted as Ilchester lecturer on comparative lexicography at the University of Oxford and as the Berlin correspondent of the Times and the Standard. His 400-page dictionary of Egyptian-Semitic-Indo-European roots appeared in 1884.

References

• Smith, Benjamin A. (main editor) (1894). The Century Cyclopedia of Names. New York: The Century Co.. pp. 1085.