Johann Baptist Berger (also Jean Baptiste Berger) * December 19, 1806 in Koblenz; † January 6, 1888 in Boppard was a Catholic priest and poet with the pseudonym Gedeon von der Heide. He was ordained as a priest on March 6, 1830 in the Basilica of St. Castor in Koblenz. On November 5, 1830 he was appointed curate by the Trier Bishop Joseph Ludwig Aloys von Hommer and became pastor in the parish of St. Severus in Boppard on May 14, 1833. On June 25, 1861 he became Definitor and on June 25, 1870 he was appointed as the Head of the Deanship at St. Goar. Berger died on January 6, 1888. He was buried on January 9, 1888 at the cemetery in Boppard-Buchenau.