Claim: Carl Abel was a German comparative philologist from Berlin who wrote Linguistic Essays in 1880 and also acted as Ilchester lecturer on comparative lexicography at the University of Oxford, legally The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of 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. Slavic and Latin. Ilchester Lectures on comparative lexicography. Oxford University, Oxford 1883 (Digitalized). 1883: Carl Abel, published as Slavic and Latin. Ilchester Lectures on comparative lexicography The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford