Abstract. For 0 < a ≤ 1, s, z ∈ C and 0 < |z| ≤ 1, the Hurwitz-Lerch zeta function is defined by Φ(s, a, z) := ∞ n=0 z n (n + a) −s when σ := ℜ(s) > 1. In this paper, we show that Φ(σ, a, z) = 0 when σ ∈ (−1, 0) if and only if [I] z = 1 and (z ∈ R and 0 < a ≤ 1. In addition, we give a new proof of the functional equation of Φ(s, a, z).1. Introduction and statement of main results 1.1. Main results. The Hurwitz-Lerch zeta function is defined by as follows.We can easily see that the Riemann zeta function ζ(s) and the Hurwitz zeta function ζ(s, a) are expressed as Φ(s, 1, 1) and Φ(s, a, 1), respectively. The Dirichlet series of Φ(s, a, z) converges absolutely in the half-plane σ > 1 and uniformly in each compact subset of this half-plane. When z = 1, the function Φ(s, a, z) is analytically continuable to the whole complex plane. However, the Hurwitz zeta function ζ(s, a) is a meromorphic function with a simple pole at s = 1. In this paper, we show the following. Note that b (−1, 0). In Section 3, we give a new proof of the functional equations (3.1) and (3.3) by using the integral representations (2.4) and (2.9), and modifying the fifth method of the proof of the functional equation for the Riemann zeta function (see [16, Section 2.8]). It should be noted that in the 21st century, Knopp and Robins [7], and Navas, Ruiz and Varona [9] gave new proofs of the functional equation for ζ(s, a) by using Poisson summation of the Lipschitz summation formula (see [7, p. 1916]) and the uniqueness of Fourier coefficients (see [9, p. 190]), respectively.2010 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 11M35.