Carl Abel (25 November 1837 – 26 November 1906) was a German comparative philologist from

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who wrote ''Linguistic Essays'' in 1880. Abel also acted as Ilchester lecturer on comparative lexicography at the

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and as the Berlin correspondent of the ''Times'' and the ''Standard''. His 400-page dictionary of Egyptian-Semitic-Indo-European roots appeared in 1886. His essay "On the antithetical meanings of primal words" (''Ueber den Gegensinn der Urworte'') was discussed by

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in an identically titled piece, which, in turn, was discussed by Jacques Derrida as a precursor to deconstruction's semantic insights.''Ueber den Gegensinn der Urworte''
(in German language) He also translated some of

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works into German.''Hans-Werner Sinn, Please Bring Me the New York Times. On the European Roots of Richard Abel Musgrave''
He was a son of a successful banker Gerson Abel. Of Jewish descent, he converted to Christianity. Abel died in

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. His son Curt Abel-Musgrave (1860–1938) was a writer and translator. His grandson was noted economist Richard Musgrave.

Work

*''Über einige Grundzüge der lateinischen Wortstellung''. Zweite Auflage. Dümmler, Berlin 1871
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*''Über den Begriff der Liebe in einigen alten und neuen Sprachen''. C. G. Lüderitz’sche Publishing house and bookstore Carl Habel, Berlin 1872. *''Koptische Untersuchungen''. Dümmler, Berlin 1876. Reprinted: Sändig Reprint, Niederwalluf near Wiesbaden 1970. *''Slavic and Latin''.

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on comparative lexicography. Oxford University, Oxford 1883 (Digitalized). *''Über den Gegensinn der Urworte''. Wilhelm Friedrich, Leipzig 1884 (Digitalized). *''Sprachwissenschaftliche Abhandlungen''. Publishing house Wilhelm Friedrich, Leipzig 1885 (Digitalized). *''Einleitung in ein aegyptisch-semitisch-indoeuropaeisches Wurzelwörterbuch''. Publishing house Wilhelm Friedrich, Leipzig 1886 (Digitalized). Reprinted: M. Sändig, Wiesbaden 1969.

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* * *http://www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=se.011.0153a 1837 births 1906 deaths Academics of the University of Oxford German philologists 19th-century German Jews People from the Province of Brandenburg Translators of William Shakespeare Writers from Berlin 19th-century German dramatists and playwrights 19th-century German male writers 19th-century German writers German male dramatists and playwrights German male poets Paleolinguists Linguists of Indo-Semitic languages {{Germany-linguist-stub