Eduard Zeller

Eduard Zeller, German Protestant theologian and philosopher, was born in 1814 in Württemberg, Germany. He taught theology at Tubingen, Bern, and Marburg, mi grated to the faculty of philosophy as the result of disputes with the clerical party, and in 1862 became Professor of Philosophy at Heidelberg University. His philosophical thought was influenced by that of Kant and Hegel and his works include, besides his monumental Philosophic der Griechen, the Platonische Studien, Geschichte dcr Christ- lichen Kirche, Geschichte der deutschen Philosophic seit Leibniz, and Staat und Kirche. He died in 1908.