Rudolf Erich Raspe
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Rudolf Erich Raspe was a German librarian, writer, and scientist, called by his biographer John Patrick Carswell a "rogue". He is best known for his collection of tall tales The Surprising Adventures
A medallion relief portrait of Raspe by the Scottish engraver James Tassie
Picture from an old Dutch edition of Münchhausen (R. E. Raspe, De verrezen Gulliver. Amsterdam, 1827.)
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
Rudolf Erich Raspe
…moved to Ireland where he managed a copper mine on the Herbert Estate in Killarney. He died in Killarney, Magunihy, of typhoid, in November 1794. The Baron Munchausen tales were made famous when they were 'borrowed', translated into German, and embellished somewhat by Gottfried August Bürger in 1786—and have been…
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