[3] Søren Georg Abel enrolled as a student of Lutheran theology in 1788 and graduated as cand.theol.

In 1794 he was hired as chaplain under his father, who was vicar in Gierestad og Wegaardsheien parish.

Regarding this position as a stepping stone, in 1801 Abel unsuccessfully applied for the vicarships in Sigdal, Holle and Aas.

[4] In 1806 he published Religions-spørgsmaal med Svar, indrettede efter de unges Fatte-evne, a well-known explanation of Luther's Small Catechism.

[5] In 1814 he was elected to the first session of the Norwegian Parliament, representing the rural constituency Nedenæs Amt (today named Aust-Agder).