Rudolf Erich Raspe on Munchausen 1781
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2015-12-17

Rudolf Erich Raspewas, 1736-1794, born in Hanover, studied law and jurisprudence at Göttingen and Leipzig and worked as a librarian for the university of Göttingen. The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in London in 1785, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, as Baron Munchhausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, also called The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen. 

Psychologists, who love to read old books and create new diseases, named a disease after this author, Munchausen Syndrome.

Here's the text
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3154