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EDUARD ZELLER (1814-1908)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 966 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ZELLER (1814-1908)  , See also:German philosopher, was See also:born at Kleinbottwar in See also:Wurttemberg on the 22nd of See also:January 1814, and educated at the university of See also:Tubingen and under the See also:influence of See also:Hegel . In 184o he was Privatdozent of See also:theology at Tubingen, in 1847 See also:professor of theology at See also:Bern, in 1849 professor of theology at See also:Marburg, migrating soon after-wards to the See also:faculty of See also:philosophy as the result of disputes with the Clerical party . He became professor of philosophy at See also:Heidelberg in 1862, removed to See also:Berlin in 1872, and retired in 1895 . His See also:great See also:work is his Philosophie der Griechen (1844–52) . This See also:book he continued to amplify and improve in the See also:light of further See also:research; the last edition appeared in 1902 . It has been translated into most of the See also:European See also:languages and became the recognized See also:text-book of See also:Greek philosophy . He wrote also on theology, and published three volumes of philosophical essays . He was also one of the founders of the Theologische Jahrbiicher, a periodical which acquired great importance as the exponent of the See also:historical method of See also:David See also:Strauss and See also:Christian See also:Baur . Like most of his contemporaries he began with Hegelianism, but subsequently he See also:developed a See also:system on his own lines . He saw the See also:necessity of going back to See also:Kant in the sense of demanding a See also:critical reconsideration of the epistemological problems which Kant had made but a partially successful See also:attempt to solve . None the less his merits as an See also:original thinker are far outshone by his splendid services to the See also:history of philosophy . It is true that his view of Greekthought is somewhat warped by Hegelian formalism .

He is not alive enough to the very intimate relation which thought holds to See also:

national See also:life and to the See also:idiosyncrasy of the thinker . He See also:lays too much stress upon the " concept," and explains too much by the Hegelian See also:antithesis of subjective and See also:objective . Nevertheless his history of Greek philosophy remains a See also:noble See also:monument of solid learning informed with natural sagacity . He received the highest recognition, not only from philosophers and learned See also:societies all over the See also:world, but also from the See also:emperor and the German See also:people . In 1894 the Emperor See also:William II. made him a " Wirklicher Geheimrat " with the See also:title of " Excellenz," and his bust, with that of See also:Helmholtz, was set up at the See also:Brandenburg See also:Gate near the statues erected to the Emperor and Empress See also:Frederick . He died on the 19th of See also:March 1908 . The Philosophie der Griechen has been translated into See also:English by S . F . Alleyne (2 vols., 1881) in sections: S . F . Alleyne, Hest, of Gk . Phil. to the See also:time of See also:Socrates (1881); O .

J . Reichel, Socrates and the Socratic See also:

Schools (1868; 2nd ed . 1877); S . F . Alleyne and A . See also:Goodwin, See also:Plato and the Older See also:Academy (1876) ; Costelloe and Muirhead, See also:Aristotle and the Earlier See also:Peripatetics (1897) ; O . J . Reichel, See also:Stoics, Epicureans and Sceptics (187o and 188o); S . F . Alleyne, His'. of See also:Eclecticism in Gk . Phil . (1883) .

The Philosophie appeared in an abbreviated See also:

form as Grundriss d . Gesch. d . Griech . Philos . (1883; 5th ed . 1898); Eng. trans. by Alleyne and See also:Evelyn See also:Abbott (1866), under the title, Outlines of the Hist. of Gk . Philos . Among his other See also:works are :—Platonische Studien (1839); See also:Die Apostelgeschichte krit. untersucht (1854; Eng. trans . J . Dare, 1875–76); Entwickelung d . Monotheismus bei d . Griech .

(1862); Gesch. d. christlich . Kirche (1898); Gesch. d. See also:

deutsch . Philos. seit Leibniz (1873, ed . 1875); Staat and Kirche (1873); Strauss in seinenLeben and Schriften (1874; Eng. trans . 1874); Ober Bedeutung and Aufgabe d . Erkenntniss-Theorie (1862); Ober teleolog. and mechan . Naturerklarung (1876); Vortrage and Abhandlungen (1865–84); See also:Religion and Philosophie bei den Romern (1866, ed . 1871); Philosoph . Aufsatze (1887) .

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