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He was born at Frondenberg, a Westphalian village, and was educated by his father, who was a minister of the Reformed Church and head of the Frondenberg convent of canonesses ( Fräuleinstift ).

Entering the University of Bonn in 1819, Hengstenberg attended the lectures of Georg Wilhelm Freytag for Oriental languages and of Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler for church history, but his energies were principally devoted to philosophy and philology, and his earliest publication was an edition of the Arabic Mu ' allaqat of Imru ' al-Qais, which gained for him a prize at his graduation in the philosophical faculty.

This was followed in 1824 by a German translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics.