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Baron Münchhausen

A portrait of Baron Karl Münchhausen ca. 1740as a Cuirassier in Riga.

Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen (German

pronunciation: [ˈmʏnçhaʊzən]; 11 May 1720 – 22 February 1797),usually known as Baron Münchausen in English, was a Germannobleman born in Bodenwerder (Electorate Brunswick-Lüneburg) anda famous recounter of tall tales.

In his youth, the Baron was sent to serve as page to Anthony Ulrich IIof Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and later joined the Russian military. Heserved until 1750, in particular taking part in two campaigns againstthe Ottoman Turks. Returning home, Münchhausen supposedly told anumber of outrageously farfetched stories about his adventures. Hedied in his birthplace of Bodenwerder.

According to the stories, as retold by others, the Baron's astoundingfeats included riding cannonballs, travelling to the Moon, and escapingfrom a swamp by pulling himself up by his own hair (or bootstraps,depending on who tells the story).

Adaptations

Doré's caricature of Münchhausen

The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published byan anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published inLondon in 1785, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, as Baron Munchhausen'sNarrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, alsocalled The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen. However,much of the humorous material in them is borrowed from othersources. Indeed, the Baron himself was not notable for immodestywithin his profession and relative to his accomplishments, and Raspe'spublication rather damaged his reputation. Most historians agree thatMunchhausen disapproved of some of the more outrageous of the talltales that Raspe's book attributed to him.

In 1786, Gottfried August Bürger translated Raspe's stories back intoGerman, and extended them. He published them under the title ofWunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande: Feldzüge und lustigeAbenteuer des Freiherrn von Münchhausen ("Marvellous Travels onWater and Land: Campaigns and Comical Adventures of the Baron ofMünchhausen"). Bürger's version is the one best known to Germanreaders today.

In the 19th century, the story had undergone expansions and transformations by many notable authors and had beentranslated into numerous languages, totaling over 100 various editions. Baron Munchhausen's adventures have alsobeen published in Russia, where they are quite commonly known, especially the versions adapted for children. In2005 a statue of Munchhausen was erected in the city of Kaliningrad (Königsberg).

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It is not clear how much of the story material derives from the Baron himself; however, it is known that the majorityof the stories are based on folktales that have been in circulation for many centuries before Münchhausen's birth.

Art

Illustration 9 by Doré

Münchhausen was an object of numerous works of art, but the final sayto his visual image belongs to an edition of the book produced in 1862and illustrated by the artist Gustave Doré.

The 1895 edition

Table of contents of the 1895 edition

Title: The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by RudolphErich Raspe

Chapters 1-20: Volume 1, Chapters 21-34: Volume 2.• Chapter 1: The Baron relates an account of his first travels — The

astonishing effects of a storm — Arrives at Ceylon; combats andconquers two extraordinary opponents — Returns to Holland.

• Chapter 2: In which the Baron proves himself a good shot — Heloses his horse, and finds a wolf — Makes him draw his sledge —Promises to entertain his company with a relation of such facts asare well deserving their notice

• Chapter 3: An encounter between the Baron's nose and a door-post, with its wonderful effects — Fifty brace ofducks and other fowl destroyed by one shot — Flogs a fox out of his skin — Leads an old sow home in a newway, and vanquishes a wild boar

• Chapter 4: Reflections on Saint Hubert's stag — Shoots a stag with cherry-stones; the wonderful effects of it —Kills a bear by extraordinary dexterity; his danger pathetically described — Attacked by a wolf, which he turnsinside out — Is assailed by a mad dog, from which he escapes — The Baron's cloak seized with madness, bywhich his whole wardrobe is thrown into confusion

• Chapter 5: The effects of great activity and presence of mind — A favourite hound described, which pups whilepursuing a hare; the hare also litters while pursued by the hound — Presented with a famous horse by CountPrzobossky, with which he performs many extraordinary feats

• Chapter 6: The Baron is made a prisoner of war, and sold for a slave — Keeps the Sultan's bees, which areattacked by two bears — Loses one of his bees; a silver hatchet, which he throws at the bears, rebounds and fliesup to the moon; brings it back by an ingenious invention; falls to the earth on his return, and helps himself out of apit — Extricates himself from a carriage which meets his in a narrow road, in a manner never before attemptednor practised since — The wonderful effects of the frost upon his servant's French horn

• Chapter 7: The Baron relates his adventures on a voyage to North America, which are well worth the reader'sattention — Pranks of a whale — A sea-gull saves a sailor's life — The Baron's head forced into his stomach —A dangerous leak stopped а posteriori

• Chapter 8: Bathes in the Mediterranean — Meets an unexpected companion — Arrives unintentionally in theregions of heat and darkness, from which he is extricated by dancing a hornpipe — Frightens his deliverers, andreturns on shore

• Chapter 9: Adventures in Turkey, and upon the river Nile — Sees a balloon over Constantinople; shoots at, andbrings it down; finds a French experimental philosopher suspended from it — Goes on an embassy to GrandCairo, and returns upon the Nile, where he is thrown into an unexpected situation, and detained six weeks

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• Chapter 10: Pays a visit during the siege of Gibraltar to his old friend General Elliot — Sinks a Spanishman-of-war — Wakes an old woman on the African coast — Destroys all the enemy's cannon; frightens theCount d'Artois, and sends him to Paris — Saves the lives of two English spies with the identical sling that killedGoliath; and raises the siege

• Chapter 11: An interesting account of the Baron's ancestors — A quarrel relative to the spot where Noah built hisark — The history of the sling, and its properties — A favourite poet introduced upon no very reputable occasion— Queen Elizabeth's abstinence — The Baron's father crosses from England to Holland upon a marine horse,which he sells for seven hundred ducats

• Chapter 12: The frolic; its consequences — Windsor Castle — St. Paul's — College of Physicians —Undertakers, sextons, &c., almost ruined — Industry of the apothecaries

• Chapter 13: The Baron sails with Captain Phipps, attacks two large bears, and has a very narrow escape — Gainsthe confidence of these animals, and then destroys thousands of them; loads the ship with their hams and skins;makes presents of the former, and obtains a general invitation to all city feasts — A dispute between the Captainand the Baron, in which, from motives of politeness, the Captain is suffered to gain his point — The Barondeclines the offer of a throne, and an empress into the bargain

• Chapter 14: Our Baron excels Baron Tott beyond all comparison, yet fails in part of his attempt — Gets intodisgrace with the Grand Seignior, who orders his head to be cut off — Escapes, and gets on board a vessel, inwhich he is carried to Venice — Baron Tott's origin, with some account of that great man's parents — PopeGanganelli's amour — His Holiness fond of shell-fish

• Chapter 15: A further account of the journey from Harwich to Helvoetsluys — Description of a number of marineobjects never mentioned by any traveller before — Rocks seen in this passage equal to the Alps in magnitude;lobsters, crabs, &c., of an extraordinary magnitude — A woman's life saved — The cause of her falling into thesea — Dr. Hawes' directions followed with success

• Chapter 16: This is a very short chapter, but contains a fact for which the Baron's memory ought to be dear toevery Englishman, especially those who may hereafter have the misfortune of being made prisoners of war

• Chapter 17: Voyage eastward — The Baron introduces a friend who never deceived him: wins a hundred guineasby pinning his faith upon that friend's nose — Game started at sea — Some other circumstances which will, it ishoped, afford the reader no small degree of amusement

• Chapter 18: A second visit (but an accidental one) to the moon — The ship driven by a whirlwind a thousandleagues above the surface of the water, where a new atmosphere meets them and carries them into a capaciousharbour in the moon — A description of the inhabitants, and their manner of coming into the lunarian world —Animals, customs, weapons of war, wine, vegetables, &c

• Chapter 19: The Baron crosses the Thames without the assistance of a bridge, ship, boat, balloon, or even his ownwill: rouses himself after a long nap, and destroys a monster who lived upon the destruction of others

• Chapter 20: The Baron slips through the world: after paying a visit to Mount Etna he finds himself in the SouthSea; visits Vulcan in his passage; gets on board a Dutchman; arrives at an island of cheese, surrounded by a sea ofmilk; describes some very extraordinary objects — Lose their compass; their ship slips between the teeth of a fishunknown in this part of the world; their difficulty in escaping from thence; arrive in the Caspian Sea — Starves abear to death — A few waistcoat anecdotes — In this chapter, which is the longest, the Baron moralises upon thevirtue of veracity

• Chapter 21: The Baron insists on the veracity of his former Memoirs — Forms a design of making discoveries inthe interior parts of Africa — His discourse with Hilaro Frosticos about it — His conversation with LadyFragrantia — The Baron goes, with other persons of distinction, to Court; relates an anecdote of the Marquis deBellecourt

• Chapter 22: Preparations for the Baron's expedition into Africa — Description of his chariot; the beauties of itsinterior decorations; the animals that drew it, and the mechanism of the wheels

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• Chapter 23: The Baron proceeds on his voyage — Convoys a squadron to Gibraltar — Declines the acceptance ofthe island of Candia — His chariot damaged by Pompey's Pillar and Cleopatra's Needle — The Baron out-doesAlexander — Breaks his chariot, and splits a great rock at the Cape of Good Hope

• Chapter 24: The Baron secures his chariot, &c., at the Cape and takes his passage for England in ahomeward-bound Indiaman — Wrecked upon an island of ice, near the coast of Guinea — Escapes from thewreck, and rears a variety of vegetables upon the island — Meets some vessels belonging to the negroes bringingwhite slaves from Europe, in retaliation, to work upon their plantations in a cold climate near the South Pole —Arrives in England, and lays an account of his expedition before the Privy Council — Great preparations for anew expedition — The Sphinx, Gog and Magog, and a great company attend him — The ideas of HilaroFrosticos respecting the interior parts of Africa

• Chapter 25: Count Gosamer thrown by Sphinx into the snow on the top of Teneriffe — Gog and Magog conductSphinx for the rest of the voyage — The Baron arrives at the Cape, and unites his former chariot, &c., to his newretinue — Passes into Africa, proceeding from the Cape northwards — Defeats a host of lions by a curiousstratagem — Travels through an immense desert — His whole company, chariot, &c., overwhelmed by awhirlwind of sand — Extricates them, and arrives in a fertile country

• Chapter 26: A feast on live bulls and kava — The inhabitants admire the European adventurers — The Emperorcomes to meet the Baron, and pays him great compliments — The inhabitants of the centre of Africa descendedfrom the people of the moon proved by an inscription in Africa, and by the analogy of their language, which isalso the same with that of the ancient Scythians — The Baron is declared sovereign of the interior of Africa onthe decease of the Emperor — He endeavours to abolish the custom of eating live bulls, which excites muchdiscontent — The advice of Hilaro Frosticos upon the occasion — The Baron makes a speech to an Assembly ofthe states, which only excites greater murmurs — He consults with Hilaro Frosticos

• Chapter 27: A proclamation by the Baron — Excessive curiosity of the people to know what fudge was — Thepeople in a general ferment about it — They break open all the granaries in the empire — The affections of thepeople conciliated — An ode performed in honour of the Baron — His discourse with Fragrantia on theexcellence of the music

• Chapter 28: The Baron sets all the people of the empire to work to build a bridge from their country to GreatBritain — His contrivance to render the arch secure — Orders an inscription to be engraved on the bridge —Returns with all his company, chariot, etc., to England — Surveys the kingdoms and nations under him from themiddle of the bridge

• Chapter 29: The Baron's retinue is opposed in a heroic style by Don Quixote, who in his turn is attacked by Gogand Magog — Lord Whittington, with the Lord Mayor's Show, comes to the assistance of Don Quixote — Gogand Magog assail his Lordship — Lord Whittington makes a speech, and deludes Gog and Magog to his party —A general scene of uproar and battle among the company, until the Baron, with great presence of mind, appeasesthe tumult

• Chapter 30: The Baron arrives in England — the Colossus of Rhodes comes to congratulate him — Greatrejoicings on the Baron's return, and a tremendous concert — The Baron's discourse with Fragrantia, and heropinion of the Tour to the Hebrides

• Chapter 31: A litigated contention between Don Quixote, Gog, Magog, &c. — A grand court assembled upon it— The appearance of the company — The matrons, judges, &c. — The method of writing, and the use of thefashionable amusement quizzes — Wauwau arrives from the country of Prester John, and leads the wholeAssembly a wild-goose chase to the top of Plinlimmon, and thence to Virginia — The Baron meets a floatingisland in his voyage to America — Pursues Wauwau with his whole company through the deserts of NorthAmerica — His curious contrivance to seize Wauwau in a morass

• Chapter 32: The Baron harangues the company, and they continue the pursuit — The Baron, wandering from his retinue, is taken by the savages, scalped, and tied to a stake to be roasted; but he contrives to extricate himself, and kills the savages — The Baron travels overland through the forests of North America, to the confines of

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Russia — Arrives at the castle of the Nareskin Rowskimowmowsky, and gallops into the kingdom ofLoggerheads — A battle, in which the Baron fights the Nareskin in single combat, and generously gives him hislife — Arrives at the Friendly Islands, and discourses with Omai — The Baron, with all his attendants, goes fromOtaheite to the isthmus of Darien, and having cut a canal across the isthmus, returns to England

• Chapter 33: On his way to Petersburgh a snow storm arrives and covers the entire landscape, the Baron succeedsto tie his horse to the single post outstanding in the landscape. On the next morning the snow has melted and herealizes that his horse is tied to a steepletop high above in the air. Arriving in Russia the Baron converses with theEmpress — Persuades the Russians and Turks to cease cutting one another's throats, and in concert cut a canalacross the Isthmus of Suez — The Baron discovers the Alexandrine Library, and meets with Hermes Trismegistus— Besieges Seringapatam, and challenges Tippoo Sahib to single combat — They fight — The Baron receivessome wounds to his face, but at last vanquishes the tyrant — The Baron returns to Europe, and raises the hull ofthe "Royal George"

• Chapter 34: The Baron makes a speech to the National Assembly, and drives out all the members — Routs thefishwomen and the National Guards — Pursues the whole rout into a Church, where he defeats the NationalAssembly, &c., with Rousseau, Voltaire, and Beelzebub at their head, and liberates Marie Antoinette and theRoyal Family

FilmsIn 1943 Raspe's book was adapted into a German language film Münchhausen directed by Josef von Báky, withHans Albers in the title role and Brigitte Horney as the empress Katherine the Great, written by Erich Kästner. Thiswas Germany's fourth full-color motion picture, lushly filmed with amazing effects for the time, and produced atUFA studios.The 1958 German film Münchhausen in Afrika directed by Werner Jacobs.In 1961, the Czech director Karel Zeman made an 83 minute film "Baron Prášil" (Baron Munchhausen), using hisunique combination of animation and live actors, starring Miloš Kopecký as the Baron. (There had been an earlierBaron Prášil film in 1940 too.)In 1974-5, four short cartoons were made in the Soviet Union (a fifth was made in 1995), called "Münchhausen'sAdventures" The cartoons are mostly original content, the use of Raspe's book being limited.In 1979 Mark Zakharov shot the Russian film, based on the play written by Grigori Gorin, The Very SameMunchhausen, relaying the story of the baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the book, particularly hisstruggle to prove himself sane. In the movie, baron Munchausen is portrayed as multi-dimensional, colorful,non-conformist man living in a gray, plain, dull and conformist society that ultimately tries to destroy him.In 1983 a French cartoon version was made, called Le Secret des sélénites. It subsequently became available inEnglish under the title Moon Madness.

Terry Gilliam adapted the stories into the 1988 film The Adventures of Baron Munchausen [sic], shot in Belchite,Spain, and at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film starred John Neville as the Baron and nine-year-old SarahPolley as Sally Salt. Supporting the Baron as his faithful crew were Eric Idle, Charles McKeown, Winston Dennisand Jack Purvis. The film also featured Uma Thurman, Oliver Reed, Jonathan Pryce, Sting and Robin Williams(credited as Ray D. Tutto).Various shorts are also known to have been made about the baron's life, including Les Hallucinations de baron deMunchhausen and Les Aventures de baron de Munchhausen by George Méliès.Additionally, the Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics episode "The Six Who Went Far" is clearly Munchausen's troupe, butthe baron himself is omitted for obvious legal reasons .

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Role-playing gameIn 1998 a multi-player storytelling/role-playing game entitled The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausenwas produced by James Wallis of Hogshead Publishing.[1] Players of the role-playing game assume the role of anoble person and challenge one another to relate an improvised tale based on an opening line given by another player(for example: "Grand Poobah, please tell our assemblage about the time you singlehandedly defeated the entireTurkish army using only a plate of cheese and a corkscrew!"). Players are able to interject and introduce a limitednumber of complications to the tall tale at any time ("But, my dear Grand Poobah, is it not true that you have ahorrible allergy to cork?"), and eventually all vote for the best storyteller.[1] The game has several adaptations intodrinking games.In 1999 Pyramid magazine named The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen as one of the Millennium'sBest Games. Editor Scott Haring said it "is the roleplaying game that comes closest of them all to pure storytelling.In fact, it disregards so many conventions of 'traditional' RPGs ... that many folks argue it's not a roleplaying game atall. ... But who cares? It's huge fun."[2]

In his 2007 essay, game designer and writer Allen Varney said that the game "can be beastly in play" since it"requires improvisation worthy of its namesake, and thus you need a particular kind of player and a particular moodfor a session to proceed smoothly." However, he also described it as a "strikingly original exercise in competitivestorytelling".[1]

The game has been republished in an augmented version by Mongoose Publishing in 2008 as part of its FlamingCobra line. Two versions were published, hardcover and softcover. The new version adds simplified rules for kidsand a 1001 nights addition.

FandomThere is a club "Munchhausen's Grandchildren" (Внучата Мюнхаузена) in Kaliningrad, Russia. With the help of itssister city Bodenwerder, the birthplace of the Baron, the club amassed a number of "historical proofs" of presence ofthe Baron in Königsberg: an ancient silver thaler "returned" to Kaliningrad by Bodenwerder's mayor as a debt for amug of beer drunk by Munchhausen, Order of Saint Anna issued to the Baron by Paul I of Russia for his "faultlessservice", and the skeleton of the whale in whose belly the Baron was entrapped for a while. On 18 June 2005 therewas the grand opening of a monument of the Baron, which was presented to Kaliningrad by Bodenwerder. Themonument portrays the Baron's cannonball ride.A similar monument of the Baron is also installed in his city of birth, as well as a fountain of Munchhausen sitting onthe front half of his horse, who is drinking from a trough - with the water falling to the ground behind.An international tour over the places visited by Baron Munchhausen is established as a joint venture of Germany,Lithuania, Latvia, and Kaliningrad.

Münchausen SyndromeIn 1951 Richard Asher first described the factitious disorder in which a patient will feign or simulate illness inthemselves to gain attention and sympathy, a syndrome Asher "respectfully dedicated to the Baron, and named afterhim."[3] Munchausen syndrome by proxy is an extension of this condition in which the sufferer, acting with similarmotives to a Munchausen syndrome sufferer, will intentionally inflict or prolong the symptoms of an illness upon anindividual under their care (most often a mother upon her child).

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References[1] Varney, Allen (2007). "The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen". In Lowder, James. Hobby Games: The Best 100. Green Ronin

Publishing. pp. 107–109. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0.[2] Haring, Scott D. (1999-12-24). "Second Sight: The Millennium's Best "Other" Game and The Millennium's Most Influential Person" (http:/ /

www. sjgames. com/ pyramid/ login/ article. html?id=1306). Pyramid (online) (Steve Jackson Games). . Retrieved 2008-02-16.[3] "R. A. J. Asher (Obituary notice)" (http:/ / www. pubmedcentral. nih. gov/ pagerender. fcgi?artid=1983233& pageindex=2#page). British

Medical Journal 2 (5653): 388. 1969-05-10. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.665.388. . Retrieved 2008-03-20

• Karl Ernst Hermann Krause: Münchhausen, Hieronimus Karl Friedrich Freiherr von. In: Allgemeine DeutscheBiographie (ADB). volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 1–5. (German)

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