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Also Known As Baron Münchausen • Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen
Born May 11, 1720 • Hanover
Died February 22, 1797 (aged 76) • Hanover
Notable Works “Vademecum für lustige Leute”

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The baron recovering his silver casket, which had bounced up to the Moon, illustration from a 19th-century edition of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe.
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