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Johann Georg Faust

1480 - 1541

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Georg Faust has received more than 1,049,323 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Johann Georg Faust is the 3rd most popular inspiration, the 562nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 430th 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

Among inspirations, Johann Georg Faust ranks 3 out of 10. Before him are Vlad the Impaler, and Eugène François Vidocq. After him are Alice Liddell, Joseph Bell, George Floyd, Jack LaLanne, Andrew Wakefield, and Mahsa Amini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1480, Johann Georg Faust ranks 6. Before him are Ferdinand Magellan, Lucrezia Borgia, Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy, Matthias Grünewald, and Albrecht Altdorfer. After him are Lorenzo Lotto, Joachim Patinir, Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, Saint Cajetan, Götz von Berlichingen, and Palma Vecchio. Among people deceased in 1541, Johann Georg Faust ranks 4. Before him are Paracelsus, Francisco Pizarro, and Margaret Tudor. After him are Pedro de Alvarado, Gazi Husrev-beg, Francysk Skaryna, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Henry IV, Duke of Saxony, Jean Clouet, Bernard van Orley, and Andreas Karlstadt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Georg Faust ranks 562 out of 7,253. Before him are August Schleicher (1821), Hans von Euler-Chelpin (1873), Walther von Reichenau (1884), Albert the Bear (1100), Albert, King of Sweden (1340), and Wilhelm Mohnke (1911). After him are Gerd Binnig (1947), Hans von Seeckt (1866), Lion Feuchtwanger (1884), Otto Carius (1922), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743), and Johannes Rau (1931).

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Among INSPIRATIONS In Germany

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

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