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.)
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.
Rudolf Erich Raspe
…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 among the favourite reading of subsequent generations, as well as the basis of several films, including Terry Gilliam's The…
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