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German fencing master trained in the Kreußler tradition. He taught at the universities of Göttingen and Helmstedt and published his influential Anfangsgründe der Fechtkunst in 1739.
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German fencing master trained in the Kreußler tradition. Anton Friedrich Kahn taught academic fencing at Göttingen and later served as senior fencing master at Helmstedt; his 1739 manual combined instruction with a short history of the art.
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Bavarian jurist, district judge and government official. Anton von Braunmühl worked in the administration of the Kingdom of Bavaria and published a legal study of duelling and Bavarian criminal legislation in 1826.
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Prussian officer, lieutenant-general and military writer, fully named Gerhard August von Witzleben. He served in staff and topographical appointments, wrote on military organisation and history, and later edited the Militär-Wochenblatt.
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German fencing writer who compiled manuals for military schools, gymnastic institutions, fencing clubs and private students, published at Wiesbaden in 1879 and 1885.
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Prussian army officer and fencing instructor identified only by the surname Blüth in the reviewed bibliography. He issued a practical guide to teaching cut fencing in 1878 and a revised continuation in 1883, by which time he was styled captain.
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German lawyer identified only by the surname Breslauer in surviving catalogues; author of the seventeen-page legal pamphlet Duellstrafen: Materialien, published in Berlin in 1890.
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German fencing master known only by the initial C., credited on the illustrated Hamburg manual Der Geöffnete Fecht-Boden. The fuller identity remains unresolved.
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German-language author identified by the initials C. A. in the historical bibliographies, known from the 1804 Jena pamphlet Abhandlung von den Fechttänzen der ersten Christen.
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C. Balan is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Duell und Ehre” (1890). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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German classical philologist, gymnastics teacher, historian and pedagogue who directed teacher training and edited the multi-volume encyclopaedic handbook of gymnastics and related disciplines, including fencing.
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Christian Günther von Berlepsch is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Phrases ex variis autoribus quam studiosissimi collectae” (1662). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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