Before revision: The many farfetched adventures of the fictional German nobleman Baron Munchausen, some of which may have had a folklore basis .
After revision: The many farfetched adventures of the fictional German nobleman Baron Munchausen, most prominently in the novel Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia (1785) by Rudolf Erich Raspe, are loosely based on Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen (1720−1797) .