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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Philosopher, theologian (1635–1697)}}<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Valentin Alberti<br />
| image = Valentin-Alberti.jpg<br />
| caption = Alberti by Christian Romstet, {{circa}} 1690<br />
| birth_date = 15 December 1635<br />
| birth_place = [[Hochkirch|Lehn]], [[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]]<br />
| death_date = {{d-da|15 September 1697|15 December 1635}}<br />
| death_place = [[Leipzig]], [[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]]<br />
| occupation = [[Logician]], [[philosopher]], and [[theologian]]<br />
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|alma_mater = [[University of Leipzig]] ([[Magister degree|Mg]])<br />
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|doctoral_students = [[Christian Thomasius]]<br />
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|religion = [[Lutheran]]<br />
|known_for = Defending Lutheran orthodoxy}}<br />
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'''Valentin Alberti''' (15 December 1635 – 15 September 1697) was a Lutheran, orthodox philosopher and theologian from [[Silesia]] and was the son of a preacher.<ref name=DB>[https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/artikelADB_pnd118644289.html?language=en Deutsche Biographie website, ''Alberti, Valentin'']</ref><br />
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He is known for defending Lutheran orthodoxy against the natural law views of [[Hugo Grotius]], [[Samuel von Pufendorf]] and [[Christian Thomasius]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=K59stsk3z5MC&dq=Valentin+Alberti+%281635%E2%80%931697%29+books&pg=PA256 Google Books website, ''Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution'', edited by Marcelo Dascal and Victor D. Boantza, pages 255-7]</ref> and being an active polemicist against Roman Catholicism.<br />
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He began his studies at the [[University of Leipzig]] in 1656, obtaining the [[Magister degree|''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.<ref>[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]</ref> Alberti was one of the principal representatives of Christian natural law ''Juris Naturae Orthodoxae Compendium Theologiae Conformatum''<ref name=DB /><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3NgvvwEACAAJ Google Books, ''Compendium Juris Naturae, Orthodoxae Theologiae Conformatum Et In Duas Partes Distributum ...'', Valentin Alberti, Frommannus, 1676]</ref> and [[Samuel von Pufendorf]]'s main opponent.<br />
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In 1665, he married the daughter of the Leipzig city judge Johannis Preibisi.<br />
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Alberti supervised the thesis of [[Christian Stridtbeckh]] on the possibility of a pact with the devil. They published in 1690<ref>[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]</ref><ref>[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]</ref> and 1716 in Latin, and in 1723 in German. He held theological opinions maintaining the possibility of reincarnation of souls from purgatory.<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://neurotree.org/neurotree/peopleinfo.php?pid=8564 Alberti's Neurotree profile]<br />
* [http://www.historicum.net/themen/hexenforschung/lexikon/alphabethisch/a-g/art/Alberti_Valent/html/artikel/5647/ca/f3e3506ed5/ Alberti biography]<br />
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