Harless, GOTTLÖB CHRISTOPH ADOLF VON, a German Lutheran theologian, was born at Nuremberg in 1806, and was professor of Theology at Erlangen from 1836, and at Leipzig from 1845. In 1850 he became chief court preacher at Dresden, and exercised great influence on ecclesiastical affairs in Saxony. In 1852 he was appointed president of the Protestant consistory at Munich, and succeeded in making the Lutheran Church in Bavaria strongly orthodox. He died 5th September 1879. His most important works were his Theologische
Encyklopädie und Methodologie (1837) and Die christliche Ethik (1842; Eng. trans. 1868). His autobiography appeared as Bruchstücke aus dem Leben eines Süddeutschen Theologen (1873–75).