Valentin Alberti

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Valentin Alberti, copper engraving by Christian Romstet

Valentin Alberti (born December 15, 1635 in Lähn , † September 19, 1697 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Alberti came from a family of Silesian pastors. His father Valentin Alberti was a Protestant pastor in Lehn. His mother Anna was the daughter of the pastor in Wiesental, David Wiesner. His grandfather was a preacher in Giesmannsdorf near Bunzlau, his name was just as Valentin Alberti as his great-grandfather, who was a pastor in Kauffung near Hirschberg. Orphaned at a young age, he attended school in Lauban and began studying at Leipzig University in 1653 .

Here he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy in 1656, was admitted to the women's college , completed his habilitation, became an assessor at the philosophical faculty in 1661 and professor of logic and metaphysics in 1663 . After 1668 the licentiate had acquired in the theological faculty, he became in 1672 an associate professor of theology and a doctorate in 1678 as a doctor of theology. Alberti Decemvir was also the university, a member of the Leipzig consistory and Ephorus of the electoral scholarship holders. In the winter semesters of 1666, 1672, 1676, 1680, 1686, 1692 he was rector of the Alma Mater .

In 1665 Alberti married Maria, the daughter of the Leipzig city judge and former rector of the University Johannes Preibisius (1610–1660). From this marriage there were two sons and five daughters. The daughter Christina Sophia Alberti († July 1702) married Gottfried Olearius (theologian, 1672) . The daughter Johanna Maria was born in 1666.

Act

Alberti was a typical representative of Lutheran orthodoxy who polemically criticized any deviation in defense of his doctrine of the faith. So he not only led disputes with the representatives of the Catholic faith, but also vehemently attacked the natural law view of the Pietists and Rationalists . He mainly dealt with Hugo Grotius , Samuel Pufendorf , Philipp Jacob Spener and his former student Christian Thomasius and tried to point out their errors in a literary discussion. In addition, Alberti appeared as a Latin poet.

In two decrees from 1701 and 1757, the Roman Catholic Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith put all of Alberti's works on the index .

Works (selection)

A comprehensive list of his writings can be found at Adelung zum Jöcher.

  • Compendium Juris Naturae, orthodoxae Theologiae conform.itum et in duas partes distrìbutum. Leipzig 1678, 1696
  • Interest praecipuarum religionum Christianarum: in omnibus articulis ita deductum, ut non tantum de causa, propter quam sic aliterve doceatur, sed & de thesi nostra adversariorumque antithesi e libris symbolicis utriusque partis, deque origine errorum ex historia 16 ecclesiastica , Leipzig
  • Anonymi cuiusdam scriptum accuratissimum circa Jus Naturae et Gentium, in quo recentissimorum quorundam scriptorum opinione adducuntur, rejiciuntur et vera sententia statu-minatur. Jena 1684
  • Epistola ad illustrem excellentissimumque Seckendorf-fium, com men turn Samuelis Pufendorfii de Invenusto Veneris Lipsiae pullo refutans. Leipzig 1688
  • Judicium de nupero scripto Pufcndorfiano, quod disse rtatio epìstolica D. Josuae Schwartzü ad Privignum suum inscribitur. Leipzig 1688
  • Tractatus de Cartesianismo et Coccejanismo. Leipzig. 1673, Wittenberg, 1701
  • Thorough refutation of a papal book. Leipzig 1684
  • Extensive answer to Spener's so-called thorough defense of his and the Pietists' innocence. Leipzig 1696

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ † not in Wittenberg. No death entry in the church register.
  2. ^ Johann Georg Thomas: Handbook of the literary history of Silesia. A winning award typeface . Krahn, Hirschberg 1824, p. 346 ( GoogleBooks )
  3. ^ Alberti, Valentinus. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 57 (French, digitized ).
personal data
SURNAME Alberti, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Lähn
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1697
Place of death Leipzig