See also:

• RUDOLF (otherwise known as Basso NOROK and Gannon)

RUDOLF See also:

• RUDOLF RASPE (MOW, (737-1794)

RASPE (See also:

• MOW

MOW, (737-1794)  , the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original author of the Adventures of See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

Baron See also:

• MUNCHAUSEN, BARON

Munchausen (see MUNC$AUSEN), was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• HANOVER
• HANOVER (Ger. Hannover)

Hanover in 1737, and studied at See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen and See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig . In 1762 he became a clerk in the university library at Hanover, and in 1764 secretary to the university library at Gottingen . He had become known as a versatile See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar and a student of natural See also:

• HISTORY

history and antiquities, and he published some original poems and also See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations, among the latter of See also:

• LEIBNITZ (LEIBNIZ), GOTTFRIED WILHELM

Leibnitz's philosophical See also:

• WORKS

works and of See also:

• OSSIAN

Ossian's poems; he also wrote a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on See also:

• PERCY (FAMILY)
• PERCY, SIR HENRY
• PERCY, THOMAS (1729-1811)
• PERCY, THOMAS (c. 156o-16os)

Percy's Reliques . In 1767 he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in See also:

• CASSEL
• CASSEL, or KASSEL

Cassel, and subsequently librarian . He contributed in 1769 a zoological See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper to the S9th See also:

• VOLUME

volume of the Philosophical Transactions, which led to his being selected a periodical called the Cassel Spectator . But having gone to See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy in 1775 to buy curios for the See also:

• LANDGRAVE (Ger. Landgraf, from Land, " a country" and Graf, "count" )

landgrave of See also:

• HESSE
• HESSE (Lat. Hessia, Ger. Hessen)

Hesse, to whom he was keeper of the gems, he was found to have sold the See also:

• LAND

land-See also:

• GRAVE

grave's valuables for his own profit; and, on orders being issued for his See also:

• ARREST (Fr. arrester, arreeter, to stop or stay)

arrest, he decamped to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . In See also:

• LONDON

London he employed his knowledge of . See also:

• ENGLISH

English and his learning to secure a living by See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing books on various subjects, and English translations of See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German works, and there are allusions to him as " a Dutch savant " in 1780 in the writings of See also:

• HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace See also:

• WALPOLE, HORATIO
• WALPOLE, SIR SPENCER (1839-1907)

Walpole, who gave him See also:

• MONEY

money and helped him to publish an See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

Essay on the Origin of Oil-See also:

• PAINTING

painting (1781) . But he remained poor, and the Royal Society expunged his name off its See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list . He went to See also:

• CORNWALL

Cornwall in 1782, and till about 1788 was assay-See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master and storekeeper at the Dolcoath mine, where memories of his ingenuity remained to the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . While there, he seems to have written the original version of Munchausen, which was subsequently elaborated by others . Between 1785 and 1790 he compiled a descriptive See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James Tassie's collection of pastes and casts of gems, in two See also:

• QUARTO

quarto volumes (1991) of laborious See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry and See also:

• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL

bibliographical rarity .

See also:

• RASPE, RUDOLF(MOW, (737-1794)

Raspe then went to See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, and in See also:

• CAITHNESS

Caithness found a See also:

• PATRON

patron in See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• SINCLAIR
• SINCLAIR, SIR JOHN, BART

Sinclair of Ulbster, whose mineralogical proclivities he proceeded to impose upon by pretending to discover valuable and workable See also:

• VEINS

veins on his estates; but Raspe had " salted " the ground himself, and on the See also:

• VERGE (Lat. virga, a rod)

verge of exposure he absconded . He next betook himself to See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland, but died at Muckross in 1794, when he was only beginning some See also:

• MINING

mining operations in See also:

• DONEGAL

Donegal . His career is interesting because of his connexion with the famous See also:

• BOOK

book of stories of Baron Munchausen (q.v.) . His authorship was not known in his lifetime, except to his friend Gottfried See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August See also:

• BURGER, GOTTFRIED AUGUST (1748-1794)

Burger and possibly a few of his other intimates (such as Kastner and Lichtenburg) in his student days at Gottingen; and it was not till 1824 that the biographer of Burger (who had been credited with See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing Munchausen instead of only translating it, as he did in 1786) revealed the truth about the book .