Early life Johann Konrad Dippel was born at a small castle, Castle Frankenstein, in southwestern Germany in 1673. He was a born into a devoutly Lutheran family. His father was a 4th generation Lutheran preacher, and it was determined at a very young age that Johann was to follow in his father’s footsteps. At the age of nine, he was entered into a small school called Darmstadt Gymnasium to began schooling on religious matter. By his seventeenth birthday he was studying theology at the University