The Most Famous
INSPIRATIONS from Germany
This page contains a list of the greatest German Inspirations. The pantheon dataset contains 10 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 65.64, Johann Georg Faust is the most famous German Inspiration. His biography has been translated into 31 different languages on wikipedia.
Georg Faustus (sometimes also Georg Sebellicus Faustus (; c. 1480 or 1466 – c. 1541), 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). 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.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as German inspirations born between 1480 and 1480. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased German inspirations include Johann Georg Faust.
