HENGSTENBERG, ERNST WILHELM German Lutheran divine and theologian, was born at Fronden berg, Westphalia, on Oct. 20, 1802. He studied at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, and in 1826 became professor extraordinarius and in 1828 professor of theology at Berlin. In July 1827 he started the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, a strictly orthodox jour nal. In 183o an anonymous article (by E. L. von Gerlach) ap peared in this journal which charged Wilhelm Gesenius and J. A. L. Wegscheider with infidelity and profanity, and advocated the interposition of the civil power, thus giving rise to the Hallische Streit. He died on May 28, 1869.
His principal work is Christologie des Alten Testaments (1829 35 ; 2nd ed., 7 ; Eng. trans. by R. Keith, 1835-39, also in Clark's "Foreign Theological Library," by T. Meyer and J. Martin, 1854-58). Of his other works, the chief are : Beitriige zur Einleitung in das Alte Testament (1831-39, Eng. trans. 1848) ; Commentar caber die Psalmen (1842-47; Eng. trans. ; Die O f enbarung Johannis erldutert (1849-51; Eng. trans., 1851 5 2) and Das Evangelium Johannis erldutent (1861-63) .
See J. Bachmann's Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (3 vols., 1876-92) ; also his article in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopddie (1899) ; and F. Lichtenberger, Hist. of German Theology in the Nineteenth Century (1889).