14 Facts About Eduard Zeller

Eduard Gottlob Zeller was a German philosopher and Protestant theologian of the Tubingen School of theology.

Eduard Zeller was well known for his writings on Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Pre-Socratic Philosophy, and most of all for his celebrated, multi-volume historical treatise The Philosophy of Greeks in their Historical Development.

Eduard Zeller was a central figure in the revival of neo-Kantianism.

Eduard Zeller was born at Kleinbottwar in Wurttemberg, the son of a government official.

Eduard Zeller received his doctorate in 1836 with a thesis on Plato's Laws.

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Eduard Zeller remained best known for his The Philosophy of Greeks in their Historical Development.

Eduard Zeller continued to expand and improve this work to reflect new research, and the last edition appeared in 1902.

Eduard Zeller published many works on theology and three volumes of philosophical essays.

Eduard Zeller was one of the founders of the Theologische Jahrbucher, a periodical which became well known as the exponent of the historical method of David Strauss and Christian Baur.

Eduard Zeller wrote much on the debate about whether theology was a kind of science.

Eduard Zeller felt the necessity of going back to Kant and critically reconsidering the epistemological problems which, he believed, Kant had only partially resolved.

Some critics maintain that Eduard Zeller was not alive enough to cultural context and to the idiosyncrasies of individual thinkers.

Eduard Zeller received the highest recognition, not only from philosophers and learned societies all over the world, but from the German emperor and German people.

Eduard Zeller was, in his Philosophie der Griechen, one of the first to use the word 'Superhuman', later central in Nietzsche and the propaganda of the Nazi Party, in adjectival form as a technical term in philosophy.