Philipp Christoph Zeller

Zeller was born at Steinheim an der Murr, Württemberg, two miles from Marbach, the birthplace of Schiller.

Zeller's first entomological studies were of Coleoptera and Diptera and he especially admired Johann Wilhem Meigen's "Zweiflügler".

Zeller's precise, orderly approach culminated in the most significant lepidopterological work of the nineteenth century – The Natural History of the Tineina.

The Natural History of the Tineina appeared in English, French, German and Latin editions, the Irish entomologist Alexander Henry Haliday doing the bulk of the translations.

[3] His collection was acquired by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham[1] and later donated to the Natural History Museum.