Before 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).
After revision: and the following German supplemented adaptation by Gottfried August BürgerThe 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).