The Most Famous
INSPIRATIONS from Germany
This page contains a list of the greatest German Inspirations. The pantheon dataset contains 7 Inspirations, 1 of which were born in Germany. This makes Germany the birth place of the 5th most number of Inspirations behind Romania and France.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary German Inspirations of all time. This list of famous German Inspirations is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Johann Georg Faust (1480 - 1541)
With an HPI of 66.83, Johann Georg Faust is the most famous German Inspiration. His biography has been translated into 30 different languages on wikipedia.
Johann Georg Faust (; c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541), also known in English as John Faustus , 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.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as inspirations born between 1480 and 1480. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased inspirations include Johann Georg Faust.
