John Zeller, known by his German name Johannes Zeller, was a 19th-century Protestant missionary in Ottoman Palestine.
10 Facts About John Zeller
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John Zeller was born in 1830 in Besigheim, with a family heritage of more than 300 years of filling different offices in the church.
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John Zeller believed that education was the main method to get to the heart of the people and to increase the Protestant influence in Nazareth and the area.
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However, John Zeller persevered to establish and develop the school, believing that it would be the seed for the Anglican denomination.
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John Zeller assisted his Armenian colleague Kaloost Vartan of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society in the founding of the Nazareth Hospital.
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John Zeller's activities contributed significantly to the establishment and the growth of the denomination, especially in Nazareth where the need to build a proper center became a pressing one.
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John Zeller was one of the main people who trained the missionaries.
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John Zeller died of heart failure on 19 February 1902.
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John Zeller left behind him a long list of people whom he had trained and equipped properly for the ministry in the Middle East.
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John Zeller made contribution to archaeological research during his long career in Israel.