Carl Abel

Carl Abel (25 November 1837 – 1906) was a German comparative philologist from Berlin who wrote "Linguistic Essays" in 1880. His essay "On the antithetical meanings of primordial words" ("Ueber die Gegensinn der Urwoerte") was cited by Sigmund Freud as anticipating some fundamental insights into Psychoanalysis and by Jacques Derrida as a precursor of Deconstruction). Abel also acted as Ilchester lecturer on comparative lexicography at Oxford and as the Berlin correspondent of the "Times" and the "Standard".

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