# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-abel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:23:19.323Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-abel"
name: "Carl Abel"
slug: "carl-abel"
description: "Carl Abel was a German comparative philologist from Berlin who wrote Linguistic Essays in 1880. Abel also acted as Ilchester lecturer on comparative lexicography at the University of Oxford 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\" was discussed by Sigmund Freud in an identically titled piece, which, in turn, was discussed by Jacques Derrida as a precursor to deconstruction's semantic insights. He also translated some of Shakespeare's works into German."
tagline: "German philologist (1837–1906)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1837-11-25"
deathDate: "1906-11-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.111111111111111
  historical:           7.004356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Carl Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل أبيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل ابيل (صحفى)"
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    title: "Karl Abel"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Abel_(Philologe)"
    title: "Carl Abel (Philologe)"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Abel"
    title: "Carl Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Abel"
    title: "Carl Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Abel"
    title: "Carlos Abel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump