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JOHANN KONRAD See also:DIPPEL (1673-1734)
, See also:German theologian and alchemist, son of a Lutheran pastor, was See also:born at the See also:castle of See also:Frankenstein, near See also:Darmstadt, on the loth of See also:August 1673
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He studied, See also:theology at See also:Giessen
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After a See also:short visit to Wittenb erf
he went to See also:Strassburg, where he lectured on See also:alchemy and See also:chiromancy, and occasionally preached
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He gained considerable popularity, but was obliged after a See also:time to quit the See also:city, owing to his irregular manner of living
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He had up to this time espoused the cause of the orthodox as against the pietists; but in his two first See also:works, published under the name" Christianus See also:Democritus," Orthodoxia Orthodoxorum (1697) and Papismus vapulans Protestanlium (1698), he assailed the fundamental positions of the Lutheran theology
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He held that See also:religion consisted not in See also:dogma but exclusively in love and self-See also:sacrifice
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To avoid persecution he was compelled to wander from See also:place to place in See also:Germany, See also: C . G . See also:Ackermann (See also:Leipzig, 1781), H . V . See also:Hoffmann (Darmstadt, 1783), K . Henning (1881) and W . See also:Bender (See also:Bonn, 1882) ; also a memoir by K . See also:Bucher in the Historisches Taschenbuch for 1858 . |
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