Jules Sylvain Zeller Explained

Jules Sylvain Zeller
Birth Date:23 April 1820
Nationality:French
Occupation:Historian, Classical Scholar
Children:Berthold Zeller

Jules Sylvain Zeller (23 April 1820 – 25 July 1900) was a 19th-century French historian.

Life

Born in Paris, Zeller became professor of History at the Faculté de Lettres at Aix-en-Provence in 1854. He became teacher at the École normale supérieure in Paris and lecturer at the Académie de Paris at Sorbonne in 1858, professor at École polytechnique (after Victor Duruy) in 1863, and was 1876 appointed Inspector General over Higher Education. He was elected a Member of the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques (section d'Histoire) of the Institut de France in 1874 after Jules Michelet. He died in Paris.[1]

His son was the historian Berthold Zeller (1848–1899).

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Notes and References

  1. "Zeller, Jules Sylvain", in Nordisk familjebok, vol. 33 (1922), col. 719-720 (in Swedish); "Liste des membres, des associés, et des correspondants de l'institut" (Z), at the website of the Institut de France.

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