Sigurd Abel

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

Life

Abel attended the seminar in Maulbronn and high school in Stuttgart. In 1855, he began a study of history, to the had his cousin Otto Abel encouraged him, at the Universities of Jena, Gottingen and Berlin. In Göttingen, he received his doctorate as a student of Georg Waitz in the summer of 1859 with the dissertation About the sinking of the Lombard kingdom in Italy. 1861 After his habilitation and appointment as Assistant Professor in Göttingen. His central work, the history of Charlemagne, was published 1866. Later he worked on the recent English history, but only published a paper entitled The party system in England and the coalition between Fox and North in 1783. A reputation as an extraordinary professor of history at the University of Giessen on April 7, 1868, he went to 8 October 1870. With severe physical and mental suffering, he moved in 1870 to Leonberg in his father's house, where he died in 1873.