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Faust (/ f aʊ s t /; German:) is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 1480–1540). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a deal with the Devil at a crossroads, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures.
The principal characters of Faust Part One include: Heinrich Faust (see also Faust), a scholar, sometimes said to be based on Johann Georg Faust, or on Jacob Bidermann's dramatized account of the Legend of the Doctor of Paris, Cenodoxus; Mephistopheles, the Devil; Gretchen, Faust's love (short for Margarete; Goethe uses both forms)
In the legend, Faust makes a deal with the devil at the price of his soul, Mephistopheles acting as the devil's agent. The name appears in the late-sixteenth-century Faust chapbooks – stories concerning the life of Johann Georg Faust, written by an anonymous German author. In the 1725 version, which Goethe read, Mephostophiles is a devil in ...
Title page of one of the Höllenzwang grimoires attributed to D. Faustus Magus Maximus Kundlingensis (18th century). Georg Faustus (sometimes also Georg Sebellicus Faustus (/ ˈ f aʊ s t /; c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541), known in English as John Faustus, was a German itinerant alchemist, astrologer, and magician of the German Renaissance.
Subsequent commentators have identified this individual as the prototypical Faustus of the legend. [25] Whatever the inspiration, the development of Marlowe's play is very faithful to the Faust Book, especially in the way it mixes comedy with tragedy. [26] However, Marlowe also introduced some changes to make it more original.
The "Gretchen" subplot, although now the most widely known episode of the Faust legend, was of Goethe's own invention. In Faust II, the legend (at least in a version of the 18th century, which came to Goethe's attention) already contained Faust's marriage with Helen and an encounter with an Emperor. But certainly Goethe deals with the legendary ...
Gerry Faust led Moeller High School to a record of 178-23-2 as the Crusaders' head coach from 1962 to 1980. Reactions: Gerry Faust remembered as legend, coach at Moeller HS, Notre Dame and Akron ...
Faustus, according to legend fathered incestuously by the 5th-century warlord Vortigern with his daughter; Faustus, the Last Night, an opera by Pascal Dusapin based on the play by Christopher Marlowe; Faustus (band), a UK three-piece folk music band; Faustus, a 2004 play by David Mamet; Victor Faustus (1490–1546), Venetian humanist