Baron Münchausen

Who was the author of this renowned hero's adventures? The *Conversations-Lexicon* (art. *Münchausen*) states that the stories are to be found under the title of "Mendacia Ridicula," in vol. iii. of *Deliciæ Academicæ*, by J.P. Lange (Heilbronn, 1665); and that "at a later period they appeared in England, where a reviewer supposed them to be a satire on the ministry." I remember to have read when a boy (I think in *The Percy Anecdotes*), that the book was written by an Englishman who was styled "M——," and was described as having been long a prisoner in the Bastille. Since writing thus far I ha…