HARLESS (originally HARLES), GOTTLIEB CHRIS TOPH German classical scholar and bibliographer, was born at Culmbach in Bavaria on June 21, 1738, and died at Erlangen on Nov. 2, 1815, where he had been professor for 45 years. His numerous classical editions are now superseded, but he will be remembered for his chief work, the new edition of Fabricius' Bibliotheca Graeca (12 vols., 1790-1809) .
His life was written by his son, Johann Christian Friedrich Harless (1818).