Johann Martin Abele

Johann Martin von Abele (born March 31, 1753 in Darmstadt , † September 3, 1805 in Ulm ) was a German publicist and historian .

Life

Abele studied law and was in 1778 at the University of Goettingen to the Dr. jur. PhD. He then held lectures there, but in 1779 he moved to Kempten as city counsel . He held this office, along with numerous others, until the city was united with the Electoral Palatinate of Bavaria (1802). In 1791 Abele was ennobled by Emperor Leopold II and in 1798 appointed court advisor to öttingen-Wallerstein. In Kempten he ran a bookstore and a book printing company, where he published his own as well as the newspaper Latest World Events and various writings. After secularization and mediatization in Kempten in 1802, Abele entered the service of the new sovereign rulership and rose to the position of section director at the regional directorate and the first secular council of the Ulm consistory. He died in Ulm in 1805.

Fonts

• On the Relationship of Magistrates and Citizens in Imperial Cities , 1780
• About Germany, Imperial death, mourning, etc. , Kempten 1790 (anonymous)
• Attempt on German constitutional law during an intermediate empire , Kempten 1792

literature

• Heinrich Robert Göppert :  Abele, Johann Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 17 f.
• Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 1 .