 Descended from Lutheran clergy on both sides of his family, second-youngest of ten children, Conring showed early promise as a student.During his life as a professor in North Germany, Conring addressed himself first to medicine, producing significant studies on blood circulation, and later in his career addressed himself to politics.Conring was born in Norden, a coastal town in East Frisia, a territory ruled at that time by the counts of Cirksena.