- Jules Sylvain Zeller
Jules Sylvain Zeller (
23 April 1820 –25 July 1900 ) was a French historian.Born in
Paris , Zeller became professor of History at the Faculté de Lettres atAix-en-Provence in 1854. He became teacher at theÉcole normale supérieure in Paris and lecturer at the Académie de Paris at Sorbonne in 1858, professor atÉcole polytechnique (afterVictor Duruy ) in 1863, and was 1876 appointed Inspector General over Higher Education. He was elected a Member of theAcadémie des Sciences morales et politiques (section d'Histoire) of theInstitut de France in 1874 afterJules Michelet . He died in Paris. ["Zeller, Jules Sylvain", in "Nordisk familjebok", vol. 33 (1922), [http://runeberg.org/nfcm/0392.html col. 719-720] (in Swedish); [http://www.institut-de-france.fr/franqueville/premier_siecle/rech_premier_z.htm "Liste des membres, des associés, et des correspondants de l'institut" (Z)] , at the website of theInstitut de France . ]His son was the historian
Berthold Zeller (1848-1899).Publications
*"Ulrich de Hutten: sa vie, ses œuvres, son époque" (1849) ( [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC53625396 available] in full text from
Google Books ).
*"Histoire de l'italie depuis l'invasion des barbares jusqu'à nos jours" (1852; 6th ed. 1906)
*"Les empereurs romains, caractères et portraits historiques" (1863; 4th ed. 1876)
*"Histoire d'Allemagne" (7 vols., 1872-91).
*"Histoire résumée de l'Allemagne" (1888).
*Editor 1860-1853 of "L'année historique".Notes
External links
* [http://www.copac.ac.uk/copac/wzgw?id=5695054&field=au&terms=Zeller%2C+Jules+Sylvain Books by Zeller]
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