Christoph Hegendorff (1500 – 8 August 1540), of Leipzig, was a Protestant theological scholar and expert of law, an educator and a great, public admirer of Erasmus, whom he called "optimarum literarum princeps" ("the prince of the best literary style") and "theologorum nostri temporis columen" ("the pillar of theologists of our times").
Hegendorff died the year prior to 1542.