Gottfried Hensel (1687–1765) was a German linguist, working in comparative linguistics.

He worked as rector in Hirschberg (Jelenia Góra), Lower Silesia.Siegismund Justus Ehrhardt, Presbyterologie des Evangelischen Schlesiens, 1783, p. 205.

Hensel is best known for his work Synopsis Universae Philologiae.

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