An Alchemist in Chains

The Case Against the Mystic Johann Konrad Dippel in Altona

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<p>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.</p><p>Born at the Burg Frankenstein in the South of Germany, he was a truly cosmopolitan figure, straying between France, Berlin, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and various German states. From 1714-1719, he was in Altona near Hamburg, then the second city of Denmark-Norway. Here, a labyrinthine case was brought against him, terminating with his banishment to the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea.</p><p>This book is the first to investigate in detail the <em>Case Against Dippel</em> in Altona, pitting him in a struggle against the strongest noble couple of Denmark-Norway, the Reventlows, presiding in Altona. It was a case involving libel, bribes, corruption, but also branching into blasphemy and gold-making.</p><p>The investigation of the <em>Case Against Dippel</em> is embedded in a narrative of what is known about his frantic life and defiant thought before and after his seven-years' incarceration. The whole story throws a new light upon the challenging question of the origin of Modernity and the clandestine connections between radical pietism and radical Enlightenment.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9783111479729

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

235 x 165 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

De Gruyter Oldenbourg