A German author, who published at Hamburg, in 1792, the first and only part of a work entitled *Materialen zu einer kritischen Geschichte der Freimaurerei*, meaning *Collections towards a Critical History of Freemasonry*.

Kloss says that this was one of the first attempts at a clear and rational history of the Order. Unfortunately, the author never completed his task, and only the first part of the work ever appeared. Albrecht was also the author of another work entitled *Geheime Geschichte eines Rosenkreuzers*, or *Secret History of a Rosicrucian*, and of a series of papers which appeared in the *Berlin Archive der Zeit*, containing Notices of Freemasonry in the first half of the Sixteenth Century.

Albrecht adopted the theory first advanced by the Abbé Grandidier, that Freemasonry owes its origin to the Steinmetzen of Germany (see Stone-masons of the Middle Ages).