HENGSTENBERG, Ernst Wilhelm (1802-1869), for more than forty years one of the most conspicuous and able champions of the strictest Lutheran orthodoxy, was born at Fröndenberg, a Westphalian village near Hamm and not far from the Ruhr, on October 20, 1802; received his entire school education under the roof of his father, who was a minister of the Reformed Church, and head of the Fröndenberg Fräuleinstift; and entered the university of Bonn in 1819, shortly before the completion of his seventeenth year. There he attended the lectures of Frey tag and Gieseler on Old Testament exegesis and church history, but his energies were principally devoted to philosophy and philology, and his earliest publication was an edition of the Moallakah of Amru’ 1’ Kais (Amrulkeisi Moallakah cum scholiis Zuzenii edidit, latine vertit, et illustravit JE. G. H, 1823), which gained for him the prize at his graduation in the philosophical faculty, and the public commendation of Sylvestre de Sacy. This was followed in 1824 by a German translation of Aristotle’s AIetaphysica. On quitting Bonn it had been Hengstenberg’s wish to complete his theological studies under Neander and Tholuck in Berlin; but finding himself without the means of doing so, he accepted for a year a situation at Basel as tutor in Oriental languages to J. J. Stähelin. Then it was that, suffering much from ill-health and deeply mourning the loss of his mother, he began to direct his attention, with an ardour formerly unknown to him, to the spiritual truths of the Bible. His studies and experiences at this crisis resulted in a conviction, never afterwards shaken, not only of the divine character ot evangelical religion, but also of the unapproachable adequacy of its expression in the Augsburg Confession. Taking as his ...