Charles Abel

Charles Nicolas Abel (born December 2, 1824 in Diedenhofen , † May 2, 1895 in Guentrange ) was a Franco-German lawyer and member of the German Reichstag .

Life

Abel attended the Lyceum in Metz and the École de droit in Paris. He also made scientific and historical studies and was a lawyer at the Paris Barreau. Then he settled in Metz. Since 1870 he was municipal councilor, since 1873 a member of the Lorraine district assembly (Conseil Général de la Lorraine) for the 2nd Metz canton, and later also of the regional committee . He was also president of the Metz Academy, founder and president of the Societe Histoire de la Moselle, the Institute histoire du Luxembourg, the Societe des Antiques de France and a contributor to several magazines.

From 1874 to 1878 he represented the constituency Elsaß-Lothringen 13 ( Diedenhofen ) in the German Reichstag for the Alsace-Lorraine protest party.

Honors

The Rue Charles Abel in Metz is named after him.

literature

Adolphe Bitard: Dictionnaire de biographie contemporaine. 3rd edition, Paris [1887]
René Paquet: Dictionnaire biographique de l'ancien département de la Moselle. Picard [ao], Paris [ao] 1887.
Gustave Vapereau: Dictionnaire universel des contemporains. 6th edition, Hachette, Paris [et al.] 1893.
Nicolas Box: Biography de Monsieur Charles Abel . In: Mémoires de l'Académie de Metz, 1895-1896, pp. 67–119.
Charles L. Leclerc: Biography of the Grands Lorrains. SMEI, Metz 1975.
Hermann Hiery: "Reichstag elections in the Reichsland", 1985, ISBN 3-7700-5132-7 , page 449.

Web links

Commons : Charles Abel - collection of images, videos and audio files

Charles Abel in the database of members of the Reichstag
Charles Abel biography . In: Heinrich Best : Database of the members of the Reichstag des Kaiserreich 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich) (the exact dataset must be determined with the search function)

Individual evidence

^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 303.

personal data
SURNAME	Abel, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Abel, Charles Nicolas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Franco-German lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
DATE OF BIRTH	December 2, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Diedenhofen
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1895
Place of death	Guentrange

[1] Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 303.