answer:“Munchausen Syndrome, a disorder where people fabricate illness in themselves, and Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome were named after an 18th-century German dignitary named Baron von Munchausen. Baron von Munchausen was known for telling “outlandish stories,” (“Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome,” n.d., p. 1). The name was first used in 1951 by Dr. Richard Asher to describe self-induced illness. It is told that Asher came upon the name Baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Munchausen in fictional accounts of his stories published in 1785 (Schreier & Libow, 1993, p.6–7). Because of the correlation between Baron von Munchausen’s fictional stories and the exaggerated and made up symptoms of a person with this disorder, the terms Munchausen Syndrome or Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome were adopted as clinical terms describing the two main factitious disorders.” Source