August Ludwig Follen

August (or, as he afterwards called himself, Adolf) Ludwig Follen (21 January 1794 – 26 December 1855) was a German poet.

Suspected of political agitation and connection with some radical plots, in 1819 he was imprisoned for two years in Berlin.

He taught in the canton school at Aarau, farmed from 1847 to 1854 the estate of Liebenfels in Thurgau, and then retired to Bern, where he lived until his death.

[1] In 1846 he published a brief collection of sonnets entitled An die gottlosen Nichtswüteriche (To the godless nothing maniacs).

Follen's posthumous poem Tristans Eltern (1857), was notable, but his best-known work is a collection of German poetry entitled Bildersaal deutscher Dichtung (1827).