Did You Know?

The name 'Munchausen's Syndrome' was derived from the name of a German nobleman, Baron von Munchausen, during the 18th century. His real name is Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Munchausen.

Baron von Munchausen told many impossible stories about himself, in which later the stories were published as 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'. The fictional Baron's exploits that was usually narrated by himself focuses on his impossible achievements as a hunter, warrior, and traveler (including rides on cannonballs and trips to the moon).

Even before his death, Munchausen's reputation as a storyteller was exaggerated by several writers, in which gradually formed a fully fictionalized literary character that was usually simply referred as Baron Munchausen.