Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless (November 21, 1806 - September 5, 1879), German divine, was born at Nuremberg

He was educated at the universities of Erlangen and Halle. He was appointed professor of theology at Erlangen in 1836 and at Leipzig in 1845. He was a strong Lutheran and exercised a powerful influence in that direction as court preacher in Dresden and as president of the Protestant consistory at Munich.

His chief works were Theologische Encyklopadie und Methodologie (1837) and Die christliche Ethik (1842, Eng. trans. 1868). He died on the 5th of September 1879, having, a few years earlier, written an autobiography under the title Bruchstucke aus dem Leben eines suddeutschen Theologen.

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