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See also:RUDOLF See also:RASPE (See also:MOW, (737-1794)
, the See also:original author of the Adventures of See also:Baron See also:Munchausen (see MUNC$AUSEN), was See also:born in See also:Hanover in 1737, and studied at See also:Gottingen and See also:Leipzig
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In 1762 he became a clerk in the university library at Hanover, and in 1764 secretary to the university library at Gottingen
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He had become known as a versatile See also:scholar and a student of natural See also:history and antiquities, and he published some original poems and also See also:translations, among the latter of See also:Leibnitz's philosophical See also:works and of See also:Ossian's poems; he also wrote a See also:treatise on See also:Percy's Reliques
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In 1767 he was appointed See also:professor in See also:Cassel, and subsequently librarian
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He contributed in 1769 a zoological See also:paper to the S9th See also:volume of the Philosophical Transactions, which led to his being selected
a periodical called the Cassel Spectator
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But having gone to See also:Italy in 1775 to buy curios for the See also:landgrave of See also:Hesse, to whom he was keeper of the gems, he was found to have sold the See also:land-See also:grave's valuables for his own profit; and, on orders being issued for his See also:arrest, he decamped to See also:England
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In See also:London he employed his knowledge of
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See also:English and his learning to secure a living by See also:publishing books on various subjects, and English translations of See also:German works, and there are allusions to him as " a Dutch savant " in 1780 in the writings of See also:Horace See also:Walpole, who gave him See also:money and helped him to publish an See also:Essay on the Origin of Oil-See also:painting (1781)
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But he remained poor, and the Royal Society expunged his name off its See also:list
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He went to See also:Cornwall in 1782, and till about 1788 was assay-See also:master and storekeeper at the Dolcoath mine, where memories of his ingenuity remained to the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century
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While there, he seems to have written the original version of Munchausen, which was subsequently elaborated by others
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Between 1785 and 1790 he compiled a descriptive See also:catalogue of See also:
See also:Raspe then went to See also:Scotland, and in See also:Caithness found a See also:patron in See also:Sir See also: |
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