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Faust II is published after Goethe’s death as a completed second part

In 1832, after Goethe’s death on 22 March, Faust. 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 1832, after Goethe’s death on 22 March, Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil appeared. He had sealed the manuscript. Contribution is complex because he did not live to see the copies.

Context

Part II’s imperial, paper-money, and classical scenes are teaching objects. They are not 1816 fiscal policy in Weimar.

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

A sealed tragedy is not a central-bank statute.

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 0.32 · verified

    Dated act under Goethe as author, councillor, or later named subject. Printers, duke, and museums share labour.

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

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. Confidence is stated on the impact path.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. contributed toFactFaust II is published after Goethe’s death as a completed second part
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Faust II is published after Goethe’s death as a completed second part. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/go-faust-ii-1832

https://factrail.ai/facts/go-faust-ii-1832

Accessed 15 October 2026.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed

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