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[edit] Warning

As stated in the article, Büch told many complete falsehoods about his life. Statements he made in interviews, for example, should not be uncritically incorporated into the article. --MarkM 13:48, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Facts

For the benefit of readers and future editors, the list below sets out in more detail where specific facts can be verified:

  • Born Boudewijn Maria Ignatius Büch. [1]
  • Born December 14 1948 in hospital in The Hague. [1]
  • Father civil servant. Parents divorced in 1963. [1]
  • Total of five brothers. [1]
  • Pseudologia fantastica attributed to him. [2]
  • Claimed he was the father of a child that had died at the age of around six. The boy he referred to did exist, but it was not his and it did not die. This lie formed the basis of his novel De kleine blonde dood. [2]
  • One of his most successful television programmes was De wereld van Boudewijn Büch (VARA, first episode in summer 1988 – last in autumn 2001), in which he travelled the length and breadth of the world to show and give his views on various places, people and phenomena. [3]
  • Bibliophile. Had approximately 100,000 books at time of death. [4]
  • Found dead in his home on Amsterdam's Keizersgracht on November 23 2002 and believed to have died that day at circa 2pm. [5]

References:

  • [1] Kagie, Rudie (2004). Boudewijn Büch, verslag van een mystificatie (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Prometheus, 24. ISBN 9789044603347. 
  • [2] Kagie, Rudie (2004). Boudewijn Büch, verslag van een mystificatie (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Prometheus, 10–21. ISBN 9789044603347. 
  • [3] Kagie, Rudie (2004). Boudewijn Büch, verslag van een mystificatie (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Prometheus, 198, 208–219. ISBN 9789044603347. 
  • [4] Kagie, Rudie (2004). Boudewijn Büch, verslag van een mystificatie (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Prometheus, 177. ISBN 9789044603347. 
  • [5] Kagie, Rudie (2004). Boudewijn Büch, verslag van een mystificatie (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Prometheus, 229. ISBN 9789044603347.