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German military officer, tactician and writer. Bibliographical attribution assigns to him both Die Fechtkunst auf Universitäten and a systematic 1802 manual on thrust and cut fencing for officers and military schools.
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German soldier, captain and influential military writer, also known as Johann Jacobi. Wallhausen produced extensively illustrated manuals on infantry, cavalry, drill, weapons and military organisation and briefly directed the military school at Siegen.
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German university fencing master active at Bonn and author of practical manuals on cut fencing with basket-hilted rapier, sabre and pallasch and on thrust fencing.
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German philosopher, literary historian and university professor Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, commonly published as Karl Rosenkranz. His writings included interventions on the academic duel and the abolition of compulsory duelling.
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German Freyfechter, manuscript compiler and scribe associated with several sixteenth-century fight books, including a section completed in 1564 and an Augsburg anthology produced by about 1588.
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German fencing master and member of the Marxbrüder, certified as a master of the long sword by 1491 and later elected captain of the guild. His illustrated fight book covers long sword, messer, dagger and other knightly weapons.
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German cartographer, topographer, historian, and fortress engineer active in Hesse and later Saxony. He is relevant to the project through military architecture, fortification literature, and the broader early modern technical culture of war in which books on arms, drill, and defence circulated alongside fencing treatises.
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A. Herr von Biberstein is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Verzeichnis etlicher Stücke des Fechtens im Rapier” (1593). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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German-Hungarian journalist, cultural historian, biographer and translator from Hungarian. His extensive output includes the Berlin historical survey Das Buch berühmter Duelle.
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Prussian lieutenant general and prolific military writer. Albert von Boguslawski wrote on tactics, military organisation and the historical development of fighting methods, including Die Fechtweise aller Zeiten.
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German military officer and author whose 1851 Leitfaden treated gymnastics and bayonet fencing for infantry.
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