Valentin Alberti (1635–1697) was a Lutheran, orthodox philosopher and theologian from

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and was the son of a preacher. He is known for defending Lutheran orthodoxy against the natural law views of

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and

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, and being an active polemicist against Roman Catholicism. He began his studies at the

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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. Alberti was one of the principal representatives of Christian natural law ''Juris Naturae Orthodoxae Compendium Theologiae Conformatum'' and

'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, in 1690 and 1716 first in Latin, 1723 also appeared in German translation. He held theological opinions maintaining the possibility of reincarnation of souls from purgatory.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Alberti, Valentin 1635 births 1697 deaths German philosophers German Lutheran theologians Leipzig University alumni People from Austrian Silesia 17th-century German Protestant theologians German male non-fiction writers 17th-century German writers 17th-century German male writers