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Faust is a real person that was born around 1480 in the small town of Knittlingen. He must of had some formal education and is likely that he spent a number of years as a wandering scholar, although it now seems certain that he styled himself as a 'Doctor' without having any right to the title (Smeed 1). He practiced magic and was proficient at hypnotism. He even casted a horoscope for the Bishop of Bamberg in 1520. He caught peoples attention where ever he went with his flamboyant personality. Tradition has it that he died in Staufen in 1540 or 1541; the house in which this is supposed to have happened is now an inn (Smeed 2).