Gottlieb Christoph Harless

Gottlieb Christoph Harless (originally Harles) (21 June 1738 – 2 November 1815) was a German classical scholar and bibliographer.

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.

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