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German educator, philosopher and writer who served as tutor to Prussian royal princes. Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Delbrück wrote on pedagogy, ethics and university life, including a critical study of the academic duel.
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German author of the 1783 Systematische Abhandlung on the harmful consequences of fencing instruction not founded on secure rules and on methods for avoiding them.
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German physician, encyclopedist and lexicographer who initiated the large Oeconomische Encyclopädie, an important Enlightenment source for technical and economic subjects.
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German military officer, later Prussian major-general, and prolific military writer. His Geschichte der Kriegskunst was issued at Göttingen from 1797 to 1800.
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Johann Heinrich Eich is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Die Adeliche und Ritterliche Fechtkunst” (1731). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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German court fencing master and teacher of mathematics and physics at the Gotha pages’ institute, author of Anleitung zur Fechtkunst nach mathematisch-physikalischen Grundsätzen.
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German fencing master active in Heidelberg, Utrecht, Leiden, and Amsterdam, and an important transmitter of rapier fencing in the Dutch Republic. His work reflects a northern European continuation of Italian-influenced thrust fencing, especially through the legacy of Salvator Fabris, while also showing the academic and urban teaching context of the later seventeenth century.
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German Franciscan preacher and compiler of Schimpf und Ernst, a highly influential collection of exemplary comic and moral tales first printed in 1522.
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German-language author known in this catalogue from Der Mann mit der Lanze, published at Freiberg by Craz und Gerlach in 1848. No fuller identity has yet been established from an exact external authority record.
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Nineteenth-century fencing and vaulting teacher associated with a German-language theoretical manual on fencing and equestrian-gymnastic practice. His appearance in the bibliography suggests a role in the pedagogical and physical-culture environment that linked fencing, gymnastics, and riding instruction in central Europe.
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Bavarian officer and military author whose German study of weapons was translated, revised and enlarged in French by P. d’Herbelot.
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German or Prussian premier lieutenant who compiled a practical 1878 Mainz guide for training and presenting the second bayonet-fencing class from the 1876 infantry regulations and his own experience.
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