Sigurd Abel (4 June 1837,

Leonberg Leonberg (; swg, Leaberg) is a town in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg about to the west of Stuttgart, the state capital. About 45,000 people live in Leonberg, making it the third-largest borough in the rural district (''Landkr ...

– 9 January 1873,

) was a German

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from

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

Education

Abel visited the seminary of Maulbronn and the college of Stuttgart. He then followed the steps of his cousin

Heinrich Friedrich Otto Abel Heinrich Friedrich Otto Abel (22 January 1824 – 28 October 1854) was a German historian. Life He was born at Reichenbach Priory in the Kingdom of Württemberg, a Protestant religious house, where his father was a clergyman. Beginning in 1 ...

and began studying history in

Jena Jena () is a German city and the second largest city in Thuringia. Together with the nearby cities of Erfurt and Weimar, it forms the central metropolitan area of Thuringia with approximately 500,000 inhabitants, while the city itself has a popu ...

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

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and

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. He earned his doctorate in summer 1859 with the historian

Georg Waitz Georg Waitz (9 October 1813 – 24 May 1886) was a German medieval historian and politician. Waitz is often spoken of as the leading disciple of Leopold von Ranke, though perhaps he had more affinity with Georg Heinrich Pertz or Friedrich Christo ...

Career

In 1861, Abel became a professor and private lecturer at

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

. He was offered an extraordinary professorship from the

university of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...

in 1868.

Personal life

In 1868, Abel's physical and mental condition forced him to return to his parental house in

, where he died in 1873.

Publications

*''Über den Untergang des Longobardenreiches in Italien'', Göttingen 1859, thesis *''Papst Hadrian I. und die weltliche Herrschaft des römischen Stuhles'', Göttingen 1861 *''Geschichte Karls des Großen, volume I, 768–788'', 1866, part of the almanac of German history published by the Historical Commission, Munich. *''Das Parteiwesen in England und die Coalition zwischen Fox und North im Jahre 1783''

References

Sources

* ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie''
online version
1837 births 1873 deaths People from Leonberg Writers from Stuttgart People from the Kingdom of Württemberg University of Jena alumni University of Bonn alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni University of Göttingen alumni Academic staff of the University of Göttingen German Lutherans 19th-century German historians 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers 19th-century Lutherans {{germany-historian-stub