An Alchemist in Chains: The Case Against the Mystic Johann Konrad Dippel in Altona

by Frederik Stjernfelt

How could a pious, Christian mystic spread radical Enlightenment ideas and freedom of thought? Johann Konrad Dippel was a radical pietist, an alchemist, a philosopher, a medical doctor, a renegade, a firebrand. He was also one of the most-read authors of early eighteenth-century Europe.

Born at the Burg Frankenstein in the South of Germany, he was a truly cosmopolitan figure, straying between France, Berlin, the Netherlands, Denmark,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111479722
• ISBN13: 9783111479729
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"