Christoph August Tiedge

Christoph August Tiedge (14 December 1752, Gardelegen – 8 March 1841, Dresden) was a German poet, who lived much of his life as a subject of the Holy Roman Empire.

Tiedge was the eldest son of the rector of the Gelehrten Stadtschule in Gardelegen and his wife, and studied law in Halle, Holy Roman Empire.

Some singable lyrics, of which "Schöne Minka, ich muss scheiden" is an example, first established his reputation, and Urania über Gott, Unsterblichkeit und Freiheit (1800; 18th ed., 1862), a lyric-didactic poem, inspired by the ethics of Emanuel Kant, enjoyed wide popularity in the beginning of the nineteenth century.

A kind of sequel to it were the Wanderungen durch den Markt des Lebens (1833).

Among his other poetical efforts, the Elegien und vermischte Gedichte (1803) met with the greatest success.