Three youthful females bathing. sixteen. On Justice and Courage: a hortative work in a few publications. Of Law, or Of Goodness and Justice. Born at the Infantry Barracks, York. Carl Djerassi was born in Vienna, Austria, but invested the 1st many years of his infancy in Sofia, Bulgaria, the home of his father, Samuel Djerassi, a skin doctor and expert in sexually transmitted health conditions.