FAUST, FAUSTUS

a character around Man, whom much legend has crystallized. Dr. John Faustus is said to have been b. at|, Knittlingen, in Wiirtemberg, and have d. about 1540. By most accounts } 02 he was a wandering necromancer, who|to dived by ae wits, and there ore a num-| poraries. The earliest pub. account of the F. story was that of Johann Spies, | i ued at Frankfurt, in 1587. The story | runs that F., the learned doctor, sold his soul to the devil (Me phis top heles), who restored his lost youth and permitted him to enjoy all kinds of wordly| pleasures for twenty-four years, and at scalp the end of which time he was carried to|the Hell. oh nage bos super ent time after 1, and upon ps thi ‘isPeet ets: eee i chek trage rst ayed in 1594; pub. 1604). rahe Goethe’s eb masterpiece, conceived P He upon somewhat more ambitious lines, of wae foe Di. i en Fe usical works on F. s ave been composed. by Gounod, % Berlioz, and New Boito. are: Heir