William Abel (* 25 August 1904 in "† 27 April 1985 in Goettingen) was a German restaurant historian.

As pupils of the Kieler agrarian economist August Skalweit (1879-1960) and first director 1964 created of institute for economics and social history busy Abel itself particularly with questions of agrarian history and - politics, the rural social politics and the handicraft politics. Beside its extensive and fundamental work to agrarian history the science of history Abel owes crucial impulses in the study of the late Middle Ages and handicraft history as well as a new interpretation of the Pauperismus and its causes. In addition Abel is considered as one the founder of the quantitative method in the economiceconomics research. To his pupils walter Achilles, Friedrich William Henning and Karl Heinrich Kaufhold belongs.

Selected works Abels

• Agrarian crises and agrarian economic situation in Central Europe of 13. up to 19. Century (Habilitationsschrift Abels, Berlin Hamburg 1935, 21966, 31978, Japan. 1972, franz. 1973, ital. 1976, English 1980)
• The of the outgoing Middle Ages. Sources and research to agrarian history (Jena 1943, 21955, 31976)
• Agricultural policy (Goettingen 1951, 21958, 31967, splinter 1960)
• History of the German agriculture from the early Middle Ages to 19. Century (second volume of the work German agrarian history, Stuttgart published by Franz 1962, 21967, 31978)
• The Pauperismus in Germany the eve of the industriellen revolution (Dortmund 1966, Hanover 21970)
• Mass poverty and hunger crises in preindustrial Europe. Attempt of a Synopsis (Hamburg Berlin 1974, 21977, 31986)

Literature

• Karl Heinrich Kaufhold: The contribution William Abels for economiceconomics research in 20. Century, in: Markus A. Denzel (Hrsg.), economics - politics - history. Contributions to the intending colloquium on the occasion of 100. Birthday by William Abel on 16 October 2004 in Leipzig, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08633-1, P. 103-127.

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