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noun - an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge
A magician and alchemist in German legend who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for power and knowledge.
FAUST - Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 14801540). Faust is an erudite who is highly suc...
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| ...in German lit if you can't recall that this Goethe title character messes with Mephistopheles |
| Martin Luther believed this German magician & astrologer, a Goethe subject, had devilish powers |
| Berlioz never intended "The Damnation of" him to be staged, but damned if opera companies don't do it anyway |
| In a Goethe work, this title character is tempted by the devil Mephistopheles |
| Returned to youth, this Goethe professor has his way with the innocent Gretchen |
| Beniamino Gigli was well known for singing the role of this scholar in "Mefistofele" |
| "Song of the Flea" & "Song of the Rat" are found in Berlioz' work about the "Damnation of" this man |
| In German legend, he sells his soul to the devil for youth, knowledge & power |
| For the gift of youth, this philosopher & alchemist pledges his soul to Mephistopheles |
| An 1846 Berlioz work on "The Damnation of" this man goes back to the Goethe tale |
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| an alchemist of German legend who sold his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for knowledge |
| (died c.1540), German astronomer and necromancer. Reputed to have sold his soul to the Devil, he became the subject of a drama by Goethe, an opera by Gounod, and a novel by Thomas Mann. |
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| Faust, UTAH, UNITED STATES |
| Faust, Alberta, CANADA |
| Faust, NORTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES |
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Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust (c. 14801540). * Faust is an erudite who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the ages. "Faust" and the adjective * "Faustian" imply a situation in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success for a delimited term.The Faust of early booksas well as the ballads, dramas, movies, and puppet-plays which grew out of themis irrevocably damned because he prefers human to divine knowledge; "he laid the Holy Scriptures behind the door and under the bench, refused to be called doctor of Theology, but preferred to be styled doctor of Medicine". Plays and comic puppet theatre loosely based on this legend we |