FAUST, or FUST, Johann, German gold smith of the 15th century and one of the persons to whom the invention of printing was long mistakenly ascribed. It is now well established that he loaned money to Gutenberg, who had pre viously made some attempts with movable types at Strassburg, and took a mortgage on the busi ness. In 1455 Faust prosecuted Gutenberg for money advanced, and seized enough of the ap paratus to cover the mortgage. He improved and used the apparatus, and in the 16th century was hailed as the inventor of printing but mod ern research has established Gutenberg's claims on a firm basis. The third person concerned was Schoffer, who married the daughter of Faust, and who is allowed the honor of having invented punches and matrices for casting types, by means of which this grand art was carried to perfection. The first fruits of the new proc ess, that is, a work printed with cast letters, appears to have been the (Mazarin Bible,' or
Rationale Divinorum Officiorum,) published by Faust and Schoffer 1459, followed a year or two after by the