Gottfried August Bürger
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Gottfried August Bürger was a German poet. His most notable ballad, Lenore, found an audience beyond readers of the German language in an English and Russian adaptation and a French translation.
Portrait by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Younger, 1771
Auguste Leonhart, sister of Bürger's wife, and the "Molly" of his poetry. After an autoportrait pastel drawing in 1781.
Dorette Bürger, after a pastel drawing by her sister Auguste in 1781.
Lenardo und Blandine, after Bürger's poem, by Wilhelm Volkhart
Baron Munchausen
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Baron Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. The cha
Gottfried August Bürger
…notice that he was doing a translation, for some time Bürger was believed to be the author of the tales. Raspe had originally concealed his authorship. Baron Munchausen Rudolf Erich Raspe…
Gustave Doré's portrait of Baron Munchausen
c. 1740 portrait of the real Münchhausen
Münchhausen's Bodenwerder manor house
The Baron entertaining guests, from a series of postcards by Oskar Herrfurth