Raspe

The text caused a great sensation when it was published by Raspe.

Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic Peckhaus, Volker 2009

Having worked for a time as chief chemist at Dolcoath mine, Cornwall, Raspe turns up in the Trewhiddle ingot story from BBC Inside Out, which speculates that the first smelting of tungsten may have been in Cornwall, rather than by the de Elhuyar brothers in Spain, 1783.

Archive 2004-12-01 Ray Girvan 2004

The excellent Pegasos entry on the best-known early compiler of the stories, Rudolph Erich Raspe, mentions often-forgotten details: that Munchausen was real, and that Raspe was an astonishing polymath who led an almost as colourful life.

Munchausen and tungsten Ray Girvan 2004

The excellent Pegasos entry on the best-known early compiler of the stories, Rudolph Erich Raspe, mentions often-forgotten details: that Munchausen was real, and that Raspe was an astonishing polymath who led an almost as colourful life.

Archive 2004-12-01 Ray Girvan 2004

Having worked for a time as chief chemist at Dolcoath mine, Cornwall, Raspe turns up in the Trewhiddle ingot story from BBC Inside Out, which speculates that the first smelting of tungsten may have been in Cornwall, rather than by the de Elhuyar brothers in Spain, 1783.

Munchausen and tungsten Ray Girvan 2004

There was unhappily an epidemic of dishonesty among the custodians of gems at this period, and, like the notorious Raspe, who fled from Cassel in 1775, and turned some of his old employers to ridicule in his Baron Munchausen, Joseph

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia, was elected king, and when Henry died after a short reign of seven months (17 February, 1247), it was again the influence of Conrad that placed the crown on the head of the youthful William of Holland.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Raspe, in his catalogue of Tassie's enamels, describes one of these in a list of portraits of the largest size that that kind of work admitted of, as being modelled and cast by Tassie in his hard white enamel paste so as to resemble a cameo.

Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

So far was this from being the case, and so distinct is the evidence of the practice of oil-painting in antecedent periods, that of late years the discoveries of the Van Eycks have not unfrequently been treated as entirely fabulous; and Raspe, in particular, rests their claims to gratitude on the contingent introduction of amber-varnish and poppy-oil: -- "Such _perhaps_," he says,

On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

The former MS. was published by Raspe, [14] who inclines to the opinion of its having been written soon after the time of St. Isidore of Seville, probably therefore in the eighth century, but insists only on its being prior to the thirteenth.

On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859