Gottfried August Bürger was born on December 31, 1747 in Molmerswende, Halberstadt, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He was a writer, known for
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962),
Monsieur de Crac (1912) and
The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen (1911). He died on June 8, 1794 in Göttingen, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire [now Lower Saxony, Germany].