Johannes Alberti
John Alberti ( born March 6, 1698 Assen; † August 13, 1762 in Leiden ) was a Dutch Reformed theologian and philologist.
Life
The miller's son Albert Jan had attended the Latin school of his birth and developed a great interest in science and literature. As a 17 -year-old, he enrolled in 1713 at the University of Franeker, where he was able to study at the expense of a Dutch nobleman. Especially the Semitic languages and the study of Greek language had him excited. During his six years of study he had attended to lectures in Greek at Lambert Bos (1670-1717), the oriental languages at Albert Schultens and the theological lectures of Campegius Vitringa the Elder. In 1718 he completed his studies in Franeker from the defense of the treatise Dissertatio metaphysico - Theologica de miraculis.
After he had visited various theological personalities, he continued his studies in 1720 at the University Leiden continued. 1721 Alberti pastor in the North Dutch village Hoogwoud. He had further studies of the Greek language and the Greek writers continued and experiment dealt with the New Testament. The fruit of his research was published in 1725 under the title Observationes philo logicae in sacros Novi foederis libros. Herein he examined passages of the New Testament, with passages in the earlier Greek literature parallels. In 1726 he went as a priest after Krommenie and found 1728 in Haarlem a new place of work.
During this time he had acquired a great reputation and was appointed by the Curators of the University of Leiden on July 12, 1740 as a professor of theology. After he received his doctorate on 27 September of the year in Leiden as a doctor of theology, he took on 5 October of the same year with the speech De theologiae et critices connubio his chair. During his free time in the parish and university service, he devoted himself to the publication of Hesychius Lexicon, which was completed by David Ruhnken. It was published in Leiden in 1746 and 1766 under the title Heychii Lexicon cum notis doctorum virorum integris in two volumes. Alberti also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University and was 1748/49 Rector of the Alma Mater, to which he gave the speech per Poesi theo logis utili (Leiden 1749) to resign the office. After he contracted tuberculosis.
The is the extension and clarification of Greek literature deserves theologian had made - to face some hostility from the Dutch orthodox camp - because of his tolerant mind to connect the philosophical sciences with the theological sciences. In 1753 he became a member of the Dutch Society of Sciences at Haarlem. To counteract the health suffering, he had visited cures at Aachen and spa. However, increasingly worsened his health, which at times led to paralysis. However, it did not prevent him to continue his duties as faculty and his research on Norse mythology. 1662 he fell ill with scarlet fever and died a few weeks later.
Alberti was married twice. He completed his first marriage on July 30, 1721 in Leiden with Catherine Lucia van Ravenstein (* 12 April 1697, † 1735), daughter of Paul von Ravenstein and his wife Catharina van de chapel. His second marriage in 1736 he went with Joanna Catharina de Graat ( 1711-1781 ) a.
Works
- Observationes philo logicae in S.N.T. libros. Leiden 1725
- Periculum criticum. Leiden 1727
- Observationum criticarum specimen in Hesychium. Bremen 1727
- Annotationum philologist. in n.t. ex Philone Judaeo coll Specimen. Bremen 1727
- Glossary graecum in S.N.F. libros. Leiden 1735
- Oratio inauguralis de theologiae et critices connubio. Leiden 1740
- Hesychii lexicon graecum. Leiden 1746, 1766, 2 vols
- Oratio per poesi theo logis utili. Leiden 1749