Question about literary form

[noob]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question but:

What is the term for writing a work, (perhaps about history or any other subject) and ascribing to someone else?

For example if i write a work on biology, and ascribe it to Louis Pasteur. Everyone knows that Pasteur is long dead, but is there a term for this type of writing?

Thanks

[Etienne]

Hmm... while it doesn't fit exactly your definition, but there is apocrypha.

[noob]

Hmm... while it doesn't fit exactly your definition, but there is apocrypha.

apocrypha is pretty close, i thought for sure there was a different term for that.
Thanks anyways

[AuntShecky]

Wouldn't it be a work of fiction, a type of historical novel in which the narrator (your example was Louis Pasteur) is a person from history.
It could also be in the canon of what is called "speculative"
fiction, "alternative universe," "parallel universe" and the
like.

[stlukesguild]

The technique of false attribution... such as Jonathan Swift attributing his fictional writings to one non-existent Lemuel Gulliver seems but one technique or tool of Metafiction. The specific technique has been given the term pseudepigraphy but I'll have to admit that I have never heard this used.

[IrishMark]

would it be a moniker that you are thinking of???