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HENGSTENBERG, ERNST WILHELM (1802-r869)

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HENGSTENBERG, See also:ERNST WILHELM (1802-r869) , See also:German Lutheran divine and theologian, was See also:born at Frondenberg, a Westphalian See also:village, on the 20th of See also:October 1802. He was educated by his See also:father, who was a See also:minister of the Reformed See also:Church, and See also:head of the Frondenberg See also:convent of canonesses (Frauleinstift). Entering the university of See also:Bonn in 1819, he attended the lectures of G. G. See also:Freytag for See also:Oriental See also:languages and of F. K. L. See also:Gieseler for church See also:history, but his energies were principally devoted to See also:philosophy and See also:philology, and his earliest publication was an edition of the Arabic Moallakat of Amru'l-Qais, which gained for him the See also:prize at his See also:graduation in the philosophical See also:faculty. This was followed in 1824 by a German See also:translation of See also:Aristotle's See also:Metaphysics. Finding himself without the means to See also:complete his theological studies under See also:Neander and See also:Tholuck in See also:Berlin, he accepted a See also:post at See also:Basel as See also:tutor in Oriental languages to J. J. Stahelin, who afterwards became See also:professor at the university.

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direct his See also:attention to a study of the See also:Bible, which led him to a conviction, never afterwards shaken, not only of the divine See also:character of evangelical See also:religion, but also of the unapproachable adequacy of its expression in the See also:Augsburg See also:Confession. In 1824 he joined the philosophical faculty of Berlin as a Privatdozent, and in 1825 he became a licentiate in See also:theology, his theses being remark-able for their evangelical fervour and for their emphatic protest against every See also:form of " See also:rationalism," especially in questions of Old Testament See also:criticism. In 1826 he became professor extraordinarius in theology; and in See also:July 1827 appeared, under his editorship, the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, a strictly orthodox See also:journal, which in his hands acquired an almost unique reputation as a controversial See also:organ. It did not, however, attain to See also:great notoriety until in 1830 an See also:anonymous See also:article (by E. L. von (ierlach) appeared, which openly charged Wilhelm Gesenius and J. A. L. See also:Wegscheider with infidelity and See also:profanity, and on the ground of these accusations advocated the interposition of the See also:civil See also:power, thus giving rise to the prolonged Hallische Streit. In 1828 the first See also:volume of Hengstenberg's Christologie See also:des See also:Allen Testaments passed through the See also:press; in the autumn of that See also:year he became professor ordinarius in theology, and in 1829 See also:doctor of theology. He died on the 28th of May 1869. The following is a See also:list of his See also:principal See also:works: Christologie des Allen Testaments (1829—1835; 2nd ed., 1854—1857; Eng. trans. by R. See also:Keith, 1835—1839, also in See also:Clark's " See also:Foreign Theological Library, by by T.

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Meyer and J. See also:Martin, 1854—1858), a See also:work of much learning, the estimate of which varies according to the hermeneutical principles of the individual critic; Beitrdge zur Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1831—1839); Eng. trans., See also:Dissertations on the Genuineness of See also:Daniel and the Integrity of See also:Zechariah (Edin., 1848), and Dissertations on the Genuineness of the See also:Pentateuch (Edin., 1847), in which the traditional view on each question is strongly upheld, and much See also:capital is made of the See also:absence of., See also:harmony among the negative critics; See also:Die See also:Bucher See also:Moses and gypten (1841); Die Geschichte Bileams u. seiner Weissagungen (1842; translated along with the Dissertations on Daniel and Zechariah) ; Commentar fiber die Psalmen (1842—1847; 2nd ed., 1849—1852; Eng. trans. by P. See also:Fairbairn and J. See also:Thomson, Edin., 1844—1848), which shares the merits and defects of the Christologie; Die Offenbarung Johannis erldutert (1849—1851; 2nd ed., 1861—1862; Eng. trans. by P. Fairbairn, also in Clark's " Foreign Theological ibrary," 1851—1852); Das Nohe Lied ausgelegt (1853) ; Der Prediger Salomo ausgelegt (1859) ; Das Evangeliunz Johannis erldutert (1861—1863 ; 2nd ed., 1867—1871 ; Eng. trans., 1865) and Die Weissagungen des Propheten Ezechiel erldutert (1867—1868). Of See also:minor importance are De See also:rebus Tyriorum commentatio academica (1832); Ober den Tag des Herrn (1852); Das Passa, ein Vortrag (1853); and Die Opfer der heiligen Schrift (1859).

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