Gotthard Heidegger

Gotthard Heidegger (15 August 1666 - 22 May 1711) was a Swiss theologian and satirical writer who gained national fame in 1698 with his Mythoscopia Romantica, a polemic against the novel.

The posthumous collection of Heidegger's writings by Johann Jakob Bodmer in 1732 contributed to his fame. A bequest of his letters (mainly copies) is in the Zentralbibliothek Zürich (MsS 337, MsF 197, MsD 163, MsH 372/73, MsH 337), which also holds a portrait of him catalogued among the Swiss portraits.

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