Faust, Part Two
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Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy is the second part of the tragic play Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was published in 1832, the year of Goethe's death.
First edition
Homunculus in the phial. Famulus Wagner and Mephistopheles (1899), engraving by Franz Xaver Simm
Death of Faust (1870) by Émile Bayard
Homunculus
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A homunculus is a small artificial human or human-like being. Popularized in 16th-century alchemy and 19th-century fiction, it has historically been referred to as the creation of a miniature, fully f
Faust, Part Two
…into his old study. Mephistopheles, donning Faust's robe once again, resumes his conversation with the freshman, who is now a cynical baccalaureus. The Homunculus, an artificial human being created by Wagner, Faust's former famulus, by means of an alchemical process, leads Faust and Mephistopheles to the "Classical…
Paracelsus is credited with the first mention of the homunculus in De homunculis (c. 1529–1532), and De natura rerum (1537).
Homuncular Jesus with the madonna
19th-century engraving of Wagner and Homunculus from Goethe's Faust II