Karl Friedrich Christian Hoeck (May 13, 1794, at Oelber am weißen Wege – January 13, 1877, in Göttingen) was a German classical historian and philologist as well as a librarian.
In the year of his appointment to extraordinary professor, 1823, Hoeck published the first volume of his magnum opus on mythology, history, religion, and state of the island of Crete in the prehistorical to the Roman period.
Although this work was highly appreciated by experts in the field, his success was restricted by the Geschichten Hellenischer Stämme und Städte (History of Hellenic Tribes and Cities) (Breslau, 1820-1824) by Karl Otfried Müller which appeared shortly before his.
Due to the constantly increasing material, the work remained unfinished: only the first volume, which dealt with the time from Augustus to Nero, appeared in three books (1841, 1843, and 1850).
Hoeck witnessed the pinnacle of his career in 1845 when he was named successor of the late Georg Friedrich Benecke as leader of the university library.