Carl Franz van der Velde (27 September 1779 – 6 April 1824)[1] was a German author of historical novels.
He was born in Breslau, Silesia (now Wrocław, Poland) into a Huguenot family.
He worked as a municipal judge and published his novels serially in the newspaper Dresdner Abendzeitung.
He was married to Philippine Wilhelmine Elisabeth Schleyer (d. 1856), and they had one daughter, Bertha (1809–1834), and two sons, Arnold (1806–1882) and Otto (d. 1841).
Several were translated into English by Nathaniel Greene, as well as George Soane, Adolf Zytogorski, and Charles Augustus Feiling.