 Two years later, he was called to the University of Zürich in systematic.With the exception of the period from 1965 to 1968, when he was once again in Tübingen, Ebeling remained in Zürich, where he was the founder and, until his retirement in 1979, the director of the Institute for Hermeneutics.From 1950 Ebeling was the chief editor of the publication "", and for several decades he presided over the Commission for the Publication of the Works of Martin Luther.