Editing Eduard Zeller (section)

==Life==
Eduard Zeller was born at [[Steinheim an der Murr|Kleinbottwar]] in [[Württemberg]], the son of a government official. He was educated first at the [[Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren]] starting in 1831, and later at the [[University of Tübingen]] (the [[Tübinger Stift]]), then much under the influence of [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford Handbook of Presocratic Philosophy|author=Patricia Curd|page=14|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=14muxtEiBG0C&pg=PA14|isbn=978-0-19-514687-5|date=2008-10-27|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA }}</ref> He received his doctorate in 1836 with a thesis on [[Plato]]'s [[Laws (dialogue)|Laws]].  In 1840 he was ''[[Privatdozent]]'' of [[theology]] at Tübingen, in 1847 professor of theology at [[University of Berne|Berne]], and in 1849 professor of theology at [[Marburg]], where he soon shifted to the philosophy faculty as the result of disputes with the Clerical party. He became professor of philosophy at the [[University of Heidelberg]] in 1862, moved to Berlin in 1872, and retired around 1895. He remained best known for his ''The Philosophy of Greeks in their Historical Development'' (1844–52). He continued to expand and improve this work to reflect new research, and the last edition appeared in 1902. It was translated into most European languages and became the standard textbook on Greek philosophy.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Zeller also published many works on theology and three volumes of philosophical essays. He was also one of the founders of the ''Theologische Jahrbücher'' (Theological Yearbooks), a periodical which became well known as the exponent of the [[historical method]] of [[David Friedrich Strauss|David Strauss]] and [[Ferdinand Christian Baur|Christian Baur]]. He wrote much on the debate about whether theology was a kind of science (''Wissenschaft'').<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pThLAAAAQBAJ|pages=96–123|title=Theology as Science in Nineteenth Century Germany: From F. C. Baur to Ernst Troeltsch|year=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|author=Johannes Zachhuber|isbn=978-0-19-964191-8}}</ref> Like most of his contemporaries, including [[Friedrich Theodor Vischer]], he began with [[Hegelianism]], but subsequently developed a system of his own. He felt the necessity of going back to [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]] and critically reconsidering the [[epistemological]] problems which, he believed, Kant had only partially resolved.<ref name=kant/>{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

He died in [[Stuttgart]].