Friedrich Amelung

7 March] 1909) was a Baltic German cultural historian, businessman and chess endgame composer.

Amelung was born at Võisiku (German: Woiseck) manor in Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire (present-day Jõgeva County in Estonia).

Amelung published writings about the culture and history of Estonian localities such as Viljandi, Tallinn, and Põltsamaa.

Amelung published about 230 endgame studies, making him the first chess historian in the Baltic States.

[2] He played a few games with Adolf Anderssen, Gustav Neumann, Carl Mayet, Emil Schallopp, Andreas Ascharin, and Emanuel Schiffers.