# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/baron-munchausen
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:40:09.694Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/baron-munchausen"
name: "Baron Munchausen"
slug: "baron-munchausen"
description: "A fictional 18th-century German nobleman who rides cannonballs, wrestles crocodiles, and visits the Moon — all while narrating his own preposterous exploits with a straight face. Rudolf Erich Raspe's 1785 creation became shorthand for the magnificent liar, though the real baron whose name he borrowed was horrified by the association."
tagline: "German nobleman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bruckner_-_M%C3%BCnchhausen.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1720-05-11"
deathDate: "1797-02-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           59.81
  momentum:             10.78
  historical:           24.82116
  currentAttention:     31.69444444444445
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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    slug: "historical-figures"
  - name: "Journalist"
    slug: "journalist"
  - name: "Literature"
    slug: "literature"
  - name: "Early Modern Era"
    slug: "early-modern-era"
platforms:
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    handle:    "ch0014569"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Կարլ Ֆրիդրիխ Հիերոնիմուս ֆոն Մյունխհաուզեն"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Raspe borrowed the name and reputation of Hieronymus Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen, a Hanoverian baron born in Bodenwerder who fought for Russia in the Russo-Turkish War of 1735–1739 and retired in 1760 to entertain German aristocrats with wildly embellished war stories. Raspe adapted those tales anonymously into magazine pieces and then the 1785 English book published in Oxford, crafting a first-person narrator whose impossible feats as sportsman and soldier were intentionally absurd and laced with social satire. The real Münchhausen threatened legal action, and Raspe never claimed authorship in his lifetime. The book became an international phenomenon, translated and expanded across Europe and America throughout the 19th century, spawning countless editions, stage and screen adaptations, and a visual archetype — the older man with beaked nose and twirled moustache — that barely resembled Raspe's original slim, youthful illustrations. The name survives in continental Europe and in medical terminology, a monument to the tall tale told so earnestly it becomes its own truth.