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Faust (FUST JOHANN one of the three)

or FUST, JOHANN, one of the three artists to whom the invention of printing has been ascribed, was the son of a goldsmith at Mentz, Germany.

The other two were Gutenberg and Schöffer; to the former of whom the invention of printing with wooden blocks has been attributed; and to the latter, who married the daughter of Faust, is allowed the honor of having invented punches and matrices, by means of which this grand art was carried to perfection. It is believed that he died of the plague in 1466.