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Cotta publishes Faust. Eine Tragödie, the first part as a completed book

Eine Tragödie, the first part, as a completed book rather than as the earlier Fragment. Eine Tragödie, the first part as a completed book (1808-01-01). In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1808 Cotta published Faust. Eine Tragödie, the first part, as a completed book rather than as the earlier Fragment.

Eine Tragödie, the first part as a completed book (1808-01-01).

Context

The Gretchen plot sits beside the Höhn row without cancelling it. A tragedy can criticise a penalty the councillor had upheld. Those are two instruments.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

Knowledge-access path. High confidence on 1808.

A printed tragedy is not a repeal of 1783. Keep the dates.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.45 · verified

    He is the author of the tragedy. Cotta manufactured the 1808 book. Complex shared labour with earlier fragments and later Part II.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Faust — English public-domain textProject Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Historisch-kritische FausteditionFaustedition / Klassik Stiftung Weimar and partners · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Faust II is a later Fact.

The historical-critical Faustedition and a public-domain English Faust independently document the printed tragedy.

Established: Faust I appeared as a book in 1808. Not established: that 1808 school enrolment rose by a known coefficient.

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Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. contributed toFactCotta publishes Faust. Eine Tragödie, the first part as a completed book
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Cotta publishes Faust. Eine Tragödie, the first part as a completed book. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/go-faust-i-cotta-1808

https://factrail.ai/facts/go-faust-i-cotta-1808

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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