Baron Munchausen

The book “Baron Munchausen” was published for the first time in 1786 and since then it was republished many times. When Gottfried August Bürger published it for the first time the full title “Singular Travels, Campaigns, Voyages, and Sporting Adventures of Baron Munnikhouson, commonly pronounced Munchausen; as he relates them over a Bottle when surrounded by his Friends” and it described the book better. Bürger did not create Munchausen. He was created by a German writer and scientist Rudolf Erich Raspe and based on a real man named Münchhausen whom Raspe met while he was a student.