Biography
Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen
Real name: Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen
Baron Münchhausen was born 11 May 1720 in Bodenwerder, Electorate Brunswick-Lüneburg, (now Germany) and died 22 February 1797 in his birthplace of Bodenwerder.He's supposedly told a number of outrageous tall tales about his adventures.