ZELLER, EDUARD (1814-1908), German philosopher, was born at Kleinbottwar in Wurttemberg on Jan. 22, 1814, and educated at the University of Ribingen and under the influence of Hegel. In 1840 he was Privatdozent of theology at TUbingen, in 1847 professor of theology at Bern, in 1849 professor of the ology at Marburg, migrating soon afterwards to the faculty of philosophy as the result of disputes with the Clerical party. He became professor of philosophy at Heidelberg in 1862, removed to Berlin in 1872, and retired in 1895. His great work is his Philosophie der Griechen (1844-52). He was one of the founders of the Theologische Jahrbiicher, a periodical which ac quired great importance as the exponent of the historical method of David Strauss and Christian Baur. Like most of his con temporaries he began with Hegelianism, but later he saw the ne cessity of going back to Kant in the sense of demanding a critical reconsideration of the epistemological problems which Kant had made but a partially successful attempt to solve. None the less
his merits as an original thinker are far outshone by his splendid services to the history of philosophy, in spite of the fact that his view of Greek thought is somewhat warped by Hegelian formal ism. He died on March 19, 1908. Among his other works are: Platonische Studien (1839) ; Gesch. d. christlich. Kirche (1898) ; Gesch. d. deutsch Philos. seit Leibniz (1873, 1875); Stoat und Kirche (1873); Ober Bedeutung und Aufgabe d. Erkenntniss-Theorie (1862) ; Ober teleolog. und mechan. Natur erklarung (1876); Philosoph. Aufsatze (1887).