Sigurd Abel

Sigurd Friedrich Abel (born June 4, 1837 in Leonberg ; † January 9, 1873 there ) was a German historian.

Life

Abel attended the seminar in Maulbronn and the grammar school in Stuttgart . In 1855 he began studying history, to which his cousin Otto Abel had suggested, at the universities of Jena , Göttingen and Berlin . In Göttingen he became a student of Georg Waitz in the summer of 1859 with the thesis About the fall of the Lombard kingdom in Italy doctorate . In 1861 his habilitation and appointment as a private lecturer in Göttingen followed. His central work, The History of Charlemagne , appeared in 1866. He later dealt with recent English history, but published only one essay entitled The Party System in England and the Coalition between Fox and North in 1783 . On April 7, 1868, he followed a call as associate professor of history at the University of Giessen until October 8, 1870. With severe physical and mental suffering, he retired to Leonberg in 1870 to the house of his father, pastor Otto Abel (1802–1886), where he died in 1873.

Fonts

• The fall of the Longobard Empire in Italy , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1859.
• Pope Hadrian I and the secular rule of the Roman See . In: Research on German History, Volume 1 (1862), pp. 453-532.
• Yearbooks of the Frankish Empire under Charlemagne , Volume 1 (768–788), Duncker & Humblot 1866.
• The party system in England and the Coalition between Fox and North in 1783 . In: Historische Zeitschrift, vol. 17 (1867), pp. 227-317.

literature

• Ferdinand Frensdorff :  Abel, Sigurd . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 16.
• A. Töpelmann: The University of Giessen from 1607 to 1907; Contributions to their history. Festschrift for the third century celebration. J. Rickers Verlag, Giessen, 1907, Vol. 1, p. 415

Web links

Wikisource: Sigurd Abel  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Sigurd Abel in the catalog of the German National Library