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. His essay "On the antithetical meanings of primordial words" ("Ueber die Gegensinn der Urwoerte" was cited by Sigmund Freud as anticipating some fundamental insights into Psychoanalysis and by Jacques Derrida as a precursor of Deconstruction). Abel also acted as Ilchester lecturer on comparative lexicography at Oxford and as the Berlin correspondent of the Times and the Standard.

References

• Smith, Benjamin A. (main editor) (1894). The Century Cyclopedia of Names. New York: The Century Co. p. 1085. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |otherauthors= (help)