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German theologian (1687–1752)

Johann Albrecht Bengel (24 June 1687 – 2 November 1752), also known as Bengelius, was a Lutheranpietistclergyman and Greek-language scholar known for his edition of the Greek New Testament and his commentaries on it.

Life and career

Bengel was born at Winnenden in Württemberg.^[1] Due to the death of his father in 1693, he was educated by a family friend, David Wendel Spindler,^[2] who became a master in the gymnasium at Stuttgart.

In 1703 Bengel left Stuttgart and entered the University of Tübingen as a student at the Tübinger Stift, where, in his spare time, he devoted himself especially to the works of Aristotle and Spinoza, and, in theology, to those of Philipp Spener, Johann Arndt and August Francke.

His knowledge of the metaphysics of Spinoza was such that he was selected by one of the professors to prepare materials for a treatise, De Spinosismo, which was afterwards published.

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