Christian Wernicke (January 1661 – 5 September 1725) was a German epigramist and diplomat.
Wernicke was born in Elbing (Elbląg), Royal Prussia, Poland.
After attending school in Elbing and Thorn (Toruń), Wernicke studied philosophy and poetry under Daniel Georg Morhof at the University of Kiel in Holstein.
He then spent three years at the court of Mecklenburg and took educational trips to Holland, France, and England, before settling in Hamburg in 1696, where he worked as a private scholar.
Wernicke was openly hostile to Christian Friedrich Hunold.