Karoline Pichler (September 7th 1769 - July 9th 1843) was an Austrian novelist. She was born with Vienna from Hofrat Franz von Greiner.

In 1796, Karoline married Andreas Pichler, a governmental civil servant. During many years its living room was the center of the literary life in the Austrian capital, where she died in 1843.

Its first works, Olivier , initially published anonymously (1802), Idyllen ( Idylles , 1803) and Ruth (1805), although deploying a considerable talent, were immature. She took her marks in the historical lovesong, and the first of its novels of this category, Agathocles (1808), an answer to the attack of Edward Gibbon on this hero in his History off the Decline and Fall off the Roman Empire ( Histoire of the decline and the fall of the Roman Empire ), reached a great popularity. Among its other novels it is necessary to mention Die Belagerung Wiens ( the Head office of Vienna , 1824); Die Schweden in Prag ( Sweden in Prague , 1827); Die Wiedereroberung Wiens ( the Reconquest of Vienna , 1829) and Henriette von England ( Henriette of England , 1832). Its last work was Zeitbilder ( Images of time , 1840).