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Johann Georg Faust

1480 - 1541

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Johann Georg Faust ( FOWST, German: [ˈjoːhan ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈfaʊst]; c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541), sometimes also Georg Sabellicus Faustus and known in English as John Faustus, was a German itinerant alchemist, astrologer, and magician of the German Renaissance. He was often called a conman and a heretic by the people of medieval Europe. Doctor Faust became the subject of folk legend in the years soon after his death, transmitted in chapbooks beginning in the 1580s, and was notably adapted by Christopher Marlowe as a tragic heretic in his play The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1588-1592). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Georg Faust is the 5th most popular inspiration (down from 3rd in 2019), the 720th most popular biography from Germany (down from 562nd in 2019) and the most popular German Inspiration.

Johann Georg Faust was a German scholar and alchemist who is most famous for selling his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.

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Among inspirations, Johann Georg Faust ranks 5 out of 10. Before him are Vlad the Impaler, Mahsa Amini, Eugène François Vidocq, and Jack LaLanne. After him are Alice Liddell, Joseph Bell, George Floyd, and Andrew Wakefield.

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Among people born in 1480, Johann Georg Faust ranks 7. Before him are Ferdinand Magellan, Lucrezia Borgia, Matthias Grünewald, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Albrecht Altdorfer, and Lorenzo Lotto. After him are Joachim Patinir, Gazi Husrev-beg, Götz von Berlichingen, Pier Gerlofs Donia, Saint Cajetan, and Philibert II, Duke of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1541, Johann Georg Faust ranks 5. Before him are Paracelsus, Francisco Pizarro, Margaret Tudor, and Pedro de Alvarado. After him are Gazi Husrev-beg, Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, Jean Clouet, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Francysk Skaryna, Bernard van Orley, and Andreas Karlstadt.

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Among people born in Germany, Johann Georg Faust ranks 720 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Strasser (1897), Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (1797), Georges J. F. Köhler (1946), Steffi Graf (1969), Matilda of Ringelheim (894), and Clemens Brentano (1778). After him are Nina Hagen (1955), Werner Sombart (1863), Hermann von Salza (1170), Henry Morgenthau Sr. (1856), Louis Spohr (1784), and Moritz Schlick (1882).

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Among INSPIRATIONS In Germany

Among inspirations born in Germany, Johann Georg Faust ranks 1. 

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