Matthias Abele von und zu Lilienberg (17 February 1618 – 14 November, 1677) brother of

Christoph Ignaz Abele Christoph Ignaz Abele, von und zu Lilienberg (1628, in Vienna – 12 October 1685, in Vienna), son of a Swabian family, was an Austrian jurist. Biography First records of the Abele family first appear at the court of Maximilian I, Elector of Bavar ...

, was a mine official and

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Steyr Steyr (; Central Bavarian: ''Steia'') is a statutory city, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. It is the administrative capital, though not part of Steyr-Land District. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and the 3rd ...

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. He acquired his doctorate in law, was ''comes palatinus'' (i.e., an

imperial count palatine An imperial count palatine ( la, comes palatinus caesareus, german: Kaiserlicher Hofpfalzgraf) was an official in the Holy Roman Empire with quasi-monarchical ("palatine") powers. In all, over 5,000 imperial counts palatine were created between the ...

) and in 1652 member of the ''

Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft The Fruitbearing Society (German Die Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, lat. ''societas fructifera'') was a German literary society founded in 1617 in Weimar by German scholars and nobility. Its aim was to standardize vernacular German and promote it a ...

'' (Fruitbearing Society). He published anecdotes in the style of a court case, namely: *''Metamorphosis telae judiciariae'', 1651, 1668, 1712 *''Vivat Unordnung!'', 1669, 1670-1675 *''Fiscologia oder Communitätscasse zu Grillenberg'', 1672

References

* ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie''
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* David Murray (2005). ''Lawyer's merriments''. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. , . pp. 96–100. 1618 births 1677 deaths 17th-century Austrian lawyers Imperial counts palatine {{Austria-law-bio-stub