Claim: Carl Abel was a German comparative philologist from Berlin who studied Linguistic Essays in 1880 and also acted as Ilchester lecturer on comparative lexicography at the University of Oxford.
Evidence: Carl Abel (25 November 1837 – 26 November 1906) 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.