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Dippel Johann Conrad, called the Christian Democritus, was born August 10, , at Frankenstein, near Darmstadt, studied at the University of Giessen, and became professor there. His vanity, and his desire to be considered as a "reformer of theology," led him into excesses which cost him his situation, and he became a sort of literary adventurer.

He was at first a violent opponent of Pietism, afterwards lectured on chiromancy and astrology, and in appeared in Darmstadt in the character of an alchemist and Pietist. Driven away as an impostor from Darmstadt in , and from Berlin in , we find him practicing medicine in Holland, where some cures performed by his "universal medicine" (Dippel's oil) gained him a great reputation.

Obliged to flee on account of debt, he went to Altona, and was imprisoned at Bornholm from to After his liberation, he went as a physician to Sweden in , but left it in December, , on account of his attacks against the Church and the institution