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    had been a historical Faust, and the legendary character was identified with a printer of Mainz called Johann Fust. Johann Georg Neumann in 1683 addressed...
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    Faust (/faʊst/; German: [faʊ̯st]) is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540). The erudite...
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  • person, Johann Georg Faust. The tale is the basis of many works. Faust may also refer to: Faust (1926 film), directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Faust (1960...
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    Historia von D. Johann Fausten, the first "Faust book", is a chapbook of stories concerning the life of Johann Georg Faust, written by an anonymous German...
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    Mephistopheles (category Characters in Goethe's Faust)
    alchemist Johann Georg Faust by the anonymous author of the first Faustbuch (published 1587). Mephistopheles is associated with the Faust legend of an...
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    Faust is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Nearly all of Part...
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  • Doctor Faustus (redirect from Dr Faust)
    Doctor Faustus or Doctor Faust may refer to: Faust, a legendary and fictional character Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480 or 1466–c. 1541), German alchemist...
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    Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One. It debuted at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Boulevard...
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    distinction between good and bad magic. A third such individual was Johann Georg Faust, upon whom several pieces of later literature were written, such as...
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    Johann Fust or Faust (c. 1400 – October 30, 1466) was an early German printer. Fust was born to a burgher family of Mainz, traceable back to the early...
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  • belonged to Duke Wenceslaus II of Opava-Ratibor. Many assume Dr. Faust (a.k.a Johann Georg Faust) who was a wanderring alchemist, astrologer and magician lived...
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    legend of Johann Georg Faust's 1525 barrel ride impressed him so much that Auerbachs Keller became the only real place in his closet drama Faust Part One...
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    intertwined with the legend of Johann Georg Faust (c.1480–1540), the alchemist and necromancer who became the subject of numerous "Faust books" published in Germany...
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    among musicians until the 20th century: Johann Georg Faust (1466/80–1541), whose life was the origin of the Faust legend. John Fian (executed on 27 January...
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  • of nowhere. Johannes Zeiler as Faust Anton Adasinsky as Moneylender (Mephistopheles) Isolda Dychauk as Gretchen Georg Friedrich as Wagner Hanna Schygulla...
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    Johann of Laz (15th century) George Ripley (England, 15th century) Thomas Norton (c. 1433–c. 1513) Johannes Trithemius (1462–1516) Johann Georg Faust...
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    likely the oldest in Europe.[citation needed] Christopher Columbus, Johann Georg Faust, Kevin Bratcher, Diamonde Helper, Hamilton Wise, and Wolfgang Amadeus...
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  • book collector Johann Georg Faust (1466? – c. 1540), itinerant alchemist, astrologer and magician of the German Renaissance Johann Georg Fischer (1816–1897)...
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  • von D. Johann Fausten may refer to: Historia von D. Johann Fausten (chapbook), a 1587 chapbook of stories concerning the life of Johann Georg Faust Historia...
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    popularized across Europe in the story of Faust, probably based in part on the real life Johann Georg Faust. As the late medieval gave way to the early...
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    John Faustus, concerns a pact allegedly made by the German scholar Johann Georg Faust with a demon named Mephistopheles agreeing to sell his soul to Satan...
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  • German alchemist and astrologer Johann Georg Faust was killed in an explosion in either 1540 or 1541. It was assumed that Faust had been killed in an alchemical...
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    De Verbo Mirifico, and finally in the De Arte Cabalistica (1517). Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541) was a German itinerant alchemist, astrologer...
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  • protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव, romanized: Śiva, lit. 'The Auspicious One'), one...
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    influenced by Goethe's Faust, though Faust, Part One had been published in 1808. Instead, Bernard's libretto draws mainly on Faust plays and poems by Friedrich...
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  • German painter (d. 1545) Matteo Bandello, Italian novelist (d. 1562) Johann Georg Faust, German alchemist (d. 1540) Anna Taskomakare, Swedish merchant craftswoman...
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    explorer probable Tristão da Cunha, Portuguese explorer (b. 1460) Johann Georg Faust, German alchemist (b. 1480) Retha M. Warnicke; Warnicke, Retha Marvine...
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    Salamandra (1828). Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831). Goethe's Faust, Part 2 (1832). Friedrich Halm, Der Adept, (1836) In twentieth and twenty-first...
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  • Goethe's Faust. 1604 – Christopher Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 1808 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part One 1832 – Johann Wolfgang...
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  • Hermann Alexander Müller: Goldberg, Georg, in Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon, S. 212. Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg der Goethe-Universität...
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