Background
He was the son of a royal Bavarian forester, Carl Friedrich Peter Dippel, and Sussanna Purpus.
He was the son of a royal Bavarian forester, Carl Friedrich Peter Dippel, and Sussanna Purpus.
He attended schools is Kaiserslautern and Zweibrücken. From 1845, he studied at the Academy of Forestry in Aschaffenburg, until he graduated in 1848.
He continued his studies in Jena under the tutelage of Matthias Jacob Schleiden. Under him, he learned more extensively about botany and pioneered his work in microscopy and his research on the structure of plant"s bodies. From July 1869, he worked at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, as a Professor of Botany and Zoology, Botany, and Cellular Histology.
His interests turned towards Dendrology at this point.
He was the rector of the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1870-1871 and the Dean of the Chemical-Technical Scool from 1882-1887. He retired at the end of the summer semester in 1896.
1863: Prize of the French Academy of Sciences.
During his time there he was a member of the Munich Corps Hubertia fraternity. 1914: Honorary Member of the Royal Microscopical Society, London.