Christiana Mariana von Ziegler

Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (28 June 1695 – 1 May 1760) was a German poet and writer.

[1] Christiana Mariana Romanus was born in Leipzig, where her father served as mayor in 1701.

Her father Franz Conrad Romanus (1671–1746) had received a long-term prison sentence for financial irregularities.

In this role he set about composing a large number of cantatas for performance in the city's churches.

[4] John Eliot Gardiner suggests that the relationship between the two may have been strained by Bach's habit of amending her texts to suit his purposes.