Valentin Alberti Explained
Valentin Alberti (1635–1697) was a Lutheran, orthodox philosopher and theologian from Silesia and was the son of a preacher.[1]
He is known for defending Lutheran orthodoxy against the natural law views of Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and Christian Thomasius,[2] and being an active polemicist against Roman Catholicism.
He began his studies at the University of Leipzig in 1656, obtaining the Magister degree in 1656. By 1663 he was already a professor of logic and metaphysics and in 1672 he became an associate professor of theology as well.[3] Alberti was one of the principal representatives of Christian natural law Juris Naturae Orthodoxae Compendium Theologiae Conformatum[4] and Samuel von Pufendorf's main opponent.
In 1665, he married the daughter of the Leipzig city judge Johannis Preibisi.
Alberti supervised the thesis of Christian Stridtbeckh on the possibility of a pact with the devil. They published in 1690[5] [6] and 1716 in Latin, and in 1723 in German. He held theological opinions maintaining the possibility of reincarnation of souls from purgatory.
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Notes and References
- https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/artikelADB_pnd118644289.html?language=en Deutsche Biographie website, Alberti, Valentin
- https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K59stsk3z5MC&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=Valentin+Alberti+(1635%E2%80%931697)+books&source=bl&ots=-A-qZRGgyK&sig=ACfU3U3L9ST9ppSJWsD_g63pSHGxKl88Ng&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjY1vy57PaDAxUdg_0HHYhgAxE4ChDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=Valentin%20Alberti%20(1635%E2%80%931697)%20books&f=false Google Books website, Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution, edited by Marcelo Dascal and Victor D. Boantza, pages 255-7
- https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/religion-past-and-present/alphaRange/Ah%20-%20An/A?s.rows=50 Brill Online website, Religious Past and Present, edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning†, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
- https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Compendium_Juris_Naturae_Orthodoxae_Theo.html?id=3NgvvwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y Google Books, Compendium Juris Naturae, Orthodoxae Theologiae Conformatum Et In Duas Partes Distributum ..., Valentin Alberti, Frommannus, 1676
- https://www.abaa.org/book/1339865801 ABAA website, De Sagis, sive Foeminis, Commercium cum Malo Spiritu Habentibus by Stridtbeckh, Christian (FL. Circa 1700) & Valentin Alberti
- https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/details/bsb10968537 MDZ website, Diss. acad. de sagis sive foeminis commercium cum malo spiritu habentibus, das ist: Von denen Zauberinnen und Hexen e Christiana pneumathologia desumpta by Alberti, Valentin and Stridtbeckh, Christian
