"Johann Faust" redirects here. For the early German printer, see Johann Fust.
German Renaissance alchemist, astrologer, and magician
Not to be confused with Georg Faust.
Title page of one of the Höllenzwang grimoires attributed to D. Faustus Magus Maximus Kundlingensis (18th century)
Johann Georg Faust (/ˈfaʊst/; c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541), also known in English as John Faustus/ˈfɔːstəs/, was a German itinerant alchemist, astrologer, and magician of the German Renaissance.
Doctor Faust became the subject of folk legend in the decades after his death, transmitted in chapbooks beginning in the 1580s, and was notably adapted by Christopher Marlowe as a tragic hero in his play The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1604). The Faustbuch tradition survived throughout the early modern period, and the legend was again adapted in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's closet drama Faust (1808), Hector Berlioz's musical composition La damnation de Faust (premiered 1846), and Franz Liszt's Faust Symphony of 1857.
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