The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Auerbach, Henry

AUERBACH, Henry: b. 1482, at a place of the same name in Bavaria, the builder of the Auerbach court and cellar at Leipzig, mentioned in Goethe's &lsquo;Faust.&rsquo; The building was

erected in 1530, and tradition reports that five years after Dr. Faust was seen riding out of it on a barrel of wine. This tale Goethe has made use of in his famous poem.