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

Date: 1808

## The fact

In 1808 Cotta published Faust. Eine Tragödie, the first part, as a completed book rather than as the earlier Fragment. The dated public instrument is that edition. Faust II is a later Fact.

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](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

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

Official or archival record: Historisch-kritische Faustedition (https://faustedition.net/; Faustedition / Klassik Stiftung Weimar and partners).

## Significance

Knowledge-access path. High confidence on 1808.

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

## What is established and what is not

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

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

Eine Tragödie, the first part as a completed book on 1808-01-01. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
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## People

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: https://factrail.ai/people/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14591
- https://faustedition.net/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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