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Abel was son of a preacher 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 preacher in Westdorf near Aschersleben where he died in 1763.

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

1 Publications

• historical works:

• Preußische und Brandenburgische Reichs- und Staatshistorie, 1710, 2 volumes, 8°
• Preußische und Brandenburgische Reichs- und Staatsgeographie, 1711, 2 volumes, 8°, additions in 1747.
• Deutsche und Sächsische Altertümer, 1729-32, 3 volumes, 8°
• Stift-, Stadt- und Landchronica des Fürstenthums Halberstadt, 1745, 4°

• poems:

• Jubelfest des Brandenburgischen Unterthanen, 1700
• Abbildung eines rechtschaffenen Predigers, 1710

• translations:

• OvidFor other uses, see Ovid (disambiguation Publius Ovidius Naso ( March 20, 43 BC AD 17) Roman poet known to the English-speaking world as Ovid wrote on topics of love, abandoned women, and mythological transformations. Ovid wrote in elegiac couplets, with's Heroids, 1704, 1723
• Boileau's satires, 1729-32, 2 volumes

2 Sources

• Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie - online version