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German military engineer, physician, and compiler best known for the illustrated `Bellifortis`, one of the most famous late medieval books on military technology, siege devices, and engines of war. He belongs to the wider martial-literary tradition of arms knowledge rather than to the direct lineage of fencing instruction.
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Augsburg painter and printmaker, probably identical with Hans Loscher called Burgkmair. He is associated with illustrated tournament and martial manuscripts and must be distinguished from his father.
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Conventional label for an anonymous, unfinished long-sword gloss in the Liechtenauer tradition; not securely identifiable as a historical person.
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German Freifechter, printer, mercenary, and fencing master from Nuremberg. After beginning in the printing trade, he turned fully to martial pursuits, travelled widely, and produced one of the better-known German rapier books of the early seventeenth century, drawing especially on Salvator Fabris and Ridolfo Capoferro.
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German fencing master and glossator in the Liechtenauer tradition, known through manuscript witnesses of long-sword and armoured combat teachings.
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German gymnastics educator, mathematician and fencing author who worked with Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and published manuals on cut-and-thrust fencing for the Berlin gymnastics school.
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Councillor at the Saxon electoral court and author of the illustrated Ringer-Kunst, printed at Wittenberg in 1539. He was still alive after 1540.
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German sculptor and draughtsman active in Augsburg. In 1533 he sketched an illustrated fight book containing sword, dagger and grappling material later used by Paulus Hector Mair.
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German fencing master associated with the academic and military fencing culture of Jena and Erlangen. Roux became one of the most important nineteenth-century exponents of German thrust and cut fencing, and his manuals on `Stoss` and `Hieb` systems helped codify German academic and pedagogical fencing practice.
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German fencing master born in Hanover who worked as a university fencing master in Strasbourg; he belonged to a family of professional fencing instructors.
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German university fencing master at Jena and major exponent of nineteenth-century German cut fencing. He authored manuals on cut fencing, Kreußler thrust fencing and academic duelling practice.
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Augsburg artist and compiler associated with a large illustrated tournament and martial manuscript now preserved as Cod. Guelf. 1.6.3 Aug. 2°.
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