| Show many a reader of tho id ventures of the famous hero of the Munchausen aid which was first published in english at oxford during the lifetime of this prince of all liars has no conception that the hero was a real person baron hieronymus karl friedrich von munchausen was a hanoverian nobleman a subject of our first three georges he was born in 1720 and died in 1797 ho took service in a russian cavalry regiment but retired in old age to his ancestral estate at boden werder in hanover where he became notorious for the magnificent lies about his military adventures with which he used to entertain his neighbors at his hospitable board A collection of these stories entitled Vade mecum fur lustigs leute was published at berlin in 1781 without the barone permission tho english work baron narrative of his marvelous travels and campaigns in russia was an n and improvement of tho berlin collection english exchange |
