Dear Ted,
According to a couple of Websites, the Baron was a real-life German
aristocrat, soldier and adventurer in the eighteenth century, whose
after-dinner tales of his extraordinary exploits were immortalised in a
book by Rudolph Erich Raspe. It must have been the fantastic
self-aggrandizing tales that produced the association. Or was your
question who actually attached the label to the syndrome?
Regards,
Sue
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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Ted Harding wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Can someone out there who _knows_ the answer (guessing might
> be easy) say how it is that the name "Munchausen" came to be
> attached to what is known as "Munchausen's Syndrome" (never
> mind "by proxy").
>
> With thanks,
> Ted.
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