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Raspe was a professor and curator who published papers on mineralogy and geology. In 1775 he traveled to England where he was employed mostly as a mining expert. In 1785 he published Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in Russia based in part on the hunting stories of the real Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Munchausen. The real Baron Munchausen disappoved of the boastful lies attributed to him and died in grief at being considered the world's biggest boaster. The name Munchausen is now used to describe an exaggerator or boaster. The first booklet was a huge success and was followed by many more stories. These have been collected into various editions of Baron Munchhausen of which all the stories may not have been by Raspe.
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