Gottlieb Christoph Adolf von Harless

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

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November 21 - 1806 - September 5 - 1879 - German - Nuremberg

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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.

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Erlangen - Halle - Theology - Leipzig - Lutheran - Dresden - Protestant - Munich

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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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