Caspar Abel

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Name Caspar Abel Education University of Helmstedt		Role Poet Children Friedrich Gottfried Abel

Died January 11, 1763, Westdorf, Germany

Caspar Abel (14 July 1676 – 11 January 1763) was a German theologian, historian and poet.

Abel was born in Hindenburg in der Altmark, the son of a pastor, and gained his theological education in Braunschweig and Helmstedt. In 1696 he became rector in Osterburg, in 1698 at the Johannisschule in Halberstadt. In 1718 he became pastor in Westdorf near Aschersleben where he died in 1763.

Note: From 1748 to 1764 he was assisted by Johann Gottfried Burger, the father of poet Gottfried August Burger.

Publications

historical works:

Preusische und Brandenburgische Reichs- und Staatshistorie, 1710, 2 volumes, 8°

Preusische und Brandenburgische Reichs- und Staatsgeographie, 1711, 2 volumes, 8°, additions in 1747.

Deutsche und Sachsische Altertumer, 1729–32, 3 volumes, 8°

Stift-, Stadt- und Landchronica des Furstenthums Halberstadt, 1745, 4°

poems:

Jubelfest des Brandenburgischen Unterthanen, 1700

Abbildung eines rechtschaffenen Predigers, 1710

translations:

Ovid's Heroids, 1704, 1723

Boileau's satires, 1729–32, 2 volumes

References

Caspar Abel Wikipedia

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