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
Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...
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
Jules Michelet (; 21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian and an author on other topics whose major work was a history of France and its culture. His aphoristic style emphasized his anti-clerical republicanism.
In Michelet's ...
. He died in Paris.
["Zeller, Jules Sylvain", in ''Nordisk familjebok'', vol. 33 (1922)]
col. 719-720
(in Swedish)
, at the website of the Institut de France.
His son was the historian
Berthold Zeller (1848–1899).
Publications
*''Ulrich de Hutten, sa vie, ses œuvres, son époque. Histoire du temps de la Réforme'' (1849)
*''Histoire de l'Italie depuis l'invasion des barbares jusqu'Ã nos jours'' (1853)
*''Épisodes de l'histoire d'Italie. Les Vêpres siciliennes, Nicolas Rienzi, la prise de Rome par le connétable de Bourbon, Masaniello et le duc de Guise'' (1856)
*''Les Empereurs romains, caractères et portraits historiques'' (1862)
*''Abrégé de l'histoire d'Italie depuis la chute de l'Empire romain jusqu'en 1864'' (1865
Text online*''Entretiens sur l'histoire, Antiquité et Moyen âge'' (2 volumes, 1865)
*''Entretiens sur l'histoire du XVIe siècle. Italie et Renaissance'' (1868)
*''Histoire d'Allemagne'' (7 volumes, 1872-1891)
*''Les Tribuns et les révolutions en Italie : Jean de Procida, Arnaud de Brescia, Nicolas Rienzi, Michel Lando, Masaniello'' (1874
Text online*''Pie IX et Victor-Emmanuel, histoire contemporaine de l'Italie, 1846-1878'' (1879)
*''François Ier'' (1882)
*''Henri IV'' (1882)
*''Italie et Renaissance : politique, lettres, arts'' (1882-1883)
*''Louis XI'' (1884)
*''Histoire résumée d'Italie, depuis la chute de l'Empire romain jusqu'à la fondation du royaume italien, à la mort de Pie IX et de Victor-Emmanuel II'' (1886)
*''Histoire résumée de l'Allemagne et de l'Empire germanique, leurs institutions au Moyen âge'' (1889)
*Editor 1860-1853 of ''L'année historique''.
References
External links
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Books by Zeller
1820 births
1900 deaths
Writers from Paris
French medievalists
19th-century French historians
French scholars of Roman history
Academic staff of the University of Paris
Academic staff of École Polytechnique
Members of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
French male non-fiction writers
19th-century French male writers
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