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Rudolph Erich Raspe
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1 March 1736 - 16 November 1794
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Born in Hanover. He studied natural sciences and philology at the Universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, then worked as a university librarian, and in 1767 was appointed curator of the Landgrave Library of Kassel. In 1769 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1775 he stole the diamonds of the Kassel Landgrave and fled with them to England, where he anonymously published in English a collection of stories about the adventures of Baron Munchausen in Russia. 1786-1788. Gottfried
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Born in Hanover. He studied natural sciences and philology at the Universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, then worked as a university librarian, and in 1767 was appointed curator of the Landgrave Library of Kassel.
In 1769 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1775 he stole the diamonds of the Kassel Landgrave and fled with them to England, where he anonymously published in English a collection of stories about the adventures of Baron Munchausen in Russia.
1786-1788. Gottfried Buerger translated these stories into German and significantly supplemented them, as a result of which until 1847 it was Burger who was considered the author of The Adventures of Munchausen (the authorship of Buerger was refuted by his biographer Heinrich Doring).
Meanwhile, Raspais in 1791 was forced to leave England (he was involved in a scandal with the Scottish mines) and moved to Ireland, where he died three years later.