Publication:
Melancthon wrote biography 1562?
Is f in Luther's Tischreden?
Efurt chronicles - mid 1500s
b.1480 Germany?
rogue alchemist (see Paracelsus)?
Met Melancthon?
Met Agrippa?
lead into gold?
conjured spectral armies?
recount whole works of Plato and Aristotle?
1st Faustbuch / chapbook - Spiess 1587
Jonghe's 'Batavia' 1588 - Faust steals printing 4 Gutenburg
Marlow 1594
Goethe 1808
Mann 1947
interesting Telegraph article