Gottlieb Christoph Harless

Gottlieb Christoph Harless (originally Harles) (21 June 1738 – 2 November 1815) was a German

classical scholar and bibliographer

Biography

He was born at Culmbach in

Coburg, in 1770 professor of poetry and eloquence at Erlangen, and in 1776 librarian of the university. He held his professorship for forty-five years until his death.^[1]

Harless was an extremely prolific writer. His numerous editions of classical authors lack originality and critical judgment, but were valuable at the time because they summarised earlier scholarship for the benefit of the student. He is chiefly remembered for his work in connection with the great

Bibliotheca Graeca of J. A. Fabricius, of which he published a new and revised edition (12 vols., 1790–1809, not quite completed) — a task for which he was uniquely qualified. He also wrote much on the history and bibliography of Greek and Latin literature.^[1]

His biography was written by his son, Johann Christian Friedrich Harless (1818).[1]

External links

List of links to scans of Bibliotheca Graeca volumes (including volumes from Harless' edition), in the "Links Galore" spreadsheet

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Chisholm 1911.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Harless, Gottlieb Christoph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 955.

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[FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-1] Chisholm 1911.

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