George William Alberti (1723 – 3 September 1758) was a German essayist and theologian, who spent many years in England. Biography He was born at Osterode am Harz in 1723, and studied philosophy and theology under Heumann and Oporin at Göttingen, where he graduated in 1745. He spent some years in England, where, besides the connection between Hanover and England, he may have had ancestral ties. (There was a George Alberti of Wadham College, M.A., 1631.) He became minister of Tundern in Hanover, and died there on 3 September 1758. Works He published: Diss. de Pseudothaumaturgis Pharaonis, 1744 De Imputabilitate Somni (graduation thesis), 1745 Some Thoughts on the Essay on Natural Religion, 1747 Aufr. Nachricht von der Rel. . . . der Quäker, 1750 Briefe betreffend den allerneuesten Zustand der Rel. und der Wissenschaften in Gross-Britannien, 1752–4 References German essayists German Protestant clergy 1723 births 1758 deaths German male essayists