Bengel, Ernst

Bengel, Ernst a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born March 12, 1735, at Denkendorf. For some time deacon at Tubingen, he was appointed in 1786 superintendent and preacher there, and died April 1, 1793. He wrote, Kurze Abhandlung uber Joh. 5, 7 (Tubingen, 1772): — Chronologische Harmonie-Tajel uber die evangelische und apostolische Geschichte nach den Grundsdtzen des seligen D. Bengels herausgegeben (ibid. 1785). He also edited the Novum Testamentum Gr. of J. A. Bengel (ibid. 1790). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. i, 42; Zuchold, Bibl. Theol. i, 105. (B. P.)