Who (which) was the mathematician "Abel" who countered Cauchy's "proof?"

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...as in this quotation: "Cauchy's approach to rigour didn't save him from errors, however. He 'proved' incorrectly that the limit of a convergent series of continuous functions is continuous. Abel produced a counterexample."

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Most probably Niels Henrik Abel.

Wikipedia on uniform_convergence says:

In 1821 Augustin Louis Cauchy published a proof that a convergent sum of continuous functions is always continuous, to which Niels Henrik Abel in 1826 found purported counterexamples in the context of Fourier series, arguing that Cauchy's proof had to be incorrect.

Unfortunately, Wikipedia does not contain a reference to a publication by Abel on this.