Valentin Alberti (15 December 1635 – 15 September 1697) was a Lutheran, orthodox philosopher and theologian from Silesia and was the son of a preacher.Deutsche Biographie website, Alberti, Valentin
He is known for defending Lutheran orthodoxy against the natural law views of Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf and Christian Thomasius,Google Books website, Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution, edited by Marcelo Dascal and Victor D. Boantza, pages 255-7 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.Brill Online website, Religious Past and Present, edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning†, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel Alberti was one of the principal representatives of Christian natural law Juris Naturae Orthodoxae Compendium Theologiae ConformatumGoogle Books, Compendium Juris Naturae, Orthodoxae Theologiae Conformatum Et In Duas Partes Distributum ..., Valentin Alberti, Frommannus, 1676 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 1690ABAA website, De Sagis, sive Foeminis, Commercium cum Malo Spiritu Habentibus by Stridtbeckh, Christian (FL. Circa 1700) & Valentin AlbertiMDZ 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 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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External links Alberti's Neurotree profile Alberti biography