August Heinrich Ernst Heiden was born about 1783 and died on February 23, 1802 at the age of 19 in Nienhagan, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. His parents were Friedrich and Hanna (Tschenow) Heiden and he was a brother of Johann Jochim Diederich Heiden.

That made him an uncle of Maria Heiden and a great uncle to August Heiden and his half-sister, Fredericka (Heiden) Schmidt.