Which Historical Figures Provide The Basis of Goethes Faust?
The original model for Faust was said to be Dr Johann Georg Faust, a German alchemist, astrologer and magician. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, a contemporary of Dr Faust, also supplied inspiration for Goethe’s fictitious Faust. Agrippa, the “Prince of Magicians”, often described as founding father of occult philosophy, was a secret Illuminatus. He was accompanied everywhere by a black dog, which was regarded by his enemies as his “familiar”.
