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Fifteenth-century German fencing master whose six-part long-sword recital survives in the Codex Speyer and later witnesses and is associated, with some uncertainty, with the Liechtenauer tradition.
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German fencing author and editor who adapted E. W. B. Eiselen’s thrust-fencing school and later co-edited revised editions of Eiselen’s Berlin cut-fencing manual.
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German fencing instructor Andreas August Fehn, formerly attached to the Royal Hanover Cadet Institution and later university fencing master at Heidelberg. His manual covered thrust, cut, sabre, backsword and bayonet fencing.
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Prussian officer and later lieutenant general who taught and directed the Berlin Central Gymnastics Institute and authored systematic military gymnastics and fencing lesson tables.
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German fencing author whose Kurtze jedoch gründliche Unterrichtung vom Hieb-Fechten was printed at Königsberg in 1658 and reprinted there in 1678; an expanded related text survives in Add MS 17533.
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German educator, nationalist and central figure in the early Turnen movement. With Ernst Wilhelm Bernhard Eiselen he published Die deutsche Turnkunst, an influential system of physical exercises that also encompassed martial training.
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Fifteenth-century writer credited with the fencing text Modus Dimicandi. His identity is unresolved; proposed identification with Heinrich of Wismar is not treated as established.
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German cleric and fencing master named in a short addendum to the Liechtenauer material in manuscript 3227a; the same material is transmitted in the 1508 Glasgow Fechtbuch.
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German Protestant theologian, educator, parliamentarian and participant in the early gymnastics and student-association movements. Heinrich Riemann is catalogued as the author of the 1834 manual Vollständige Anweisung zum Stoßfechten.
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German fencing writer who, at about twenty-two, prepared the manuscript Sciomachia et hoplomachia and published De veris principiis artis dimicatoriae in 1579.
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German fencing author responsible for Das Freifechten (Leipzig, 1865) and Das Geräthfechten, covering stick, staff, sabre and sword fencing (1877). Dates of life remain unresolved.
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German fencing master whose teachings on long sword and other weapons survive in sixteenth-century manuscript witnesses. His precise identity and life dates remain unresolved.
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