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JOHANN KONRAD DIPPEL (1673-1734)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 307 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . He studied, See also:theology at See also:Giessen . 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 . 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 . 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 . He held that See also:religion consisted not in See also:dogma but exclusively in love and self-See also:sacrifice . To avoid persecution he was compelled to wander from See also:place to place in See also:Germany, See also:Holland, See also:Denmark and See also:Sweden . He took the degree of See also:doctor of See also:medicine at See also:Leiden in 1711 . He discovered Prussian See also:blue, and by the destructive See also:distillation of bones prepared the evil-smelling product known .as See also:Dippel's See also:animal oil . He died near Berleburg on the 25th of See also:April 1734 . An enlarged edition of Dippel's collected works was published at Berleburg in 1743 . See the See also:biographies by J .

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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