Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer who once helped the Eighth Doctor defeat a Bacchanite in Vienna. Inspired by this adventure, he went on to write Faust. (PROSE: The Sorrows of Vienna)
In 1993, Bernice Summerfield read from James Rafferty's copy of Faust, and thought how much Johann Wolfgang von Goethe would have appreciated a Faustian voyage in the Doctor's TARDIS. (PROSE: The Dimension Riders)