HEMA Authors and Fencing Masters

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Heinrich Friedrich Rumpf

Germany fl. 1824–1825

Prussian officer and military bibliographer who compiled the two-volume Allgemeine Literatur der Kriegswissenschaften, including a bibliography of fencing on pages 212–220.

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Hermann Otto Kluge

Germany 1818 - 1882 fl. 1850–1882

German gymnastics teacher and writer active at the Royal Central Gymnastics Institute in Berlin. His 1852 command tables adapted the Swedish system for épée and bayonet instruction.

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Herrmann von Gauvain

Germany 1814 - 1889

Prussian officer, aristocratic political writer and defender of the nineteenth-century German honour duel; author of Das Duell und seine Rechtfertigung.

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Hornstein

Germany 1869

German author of a short work on sabre fencing, `Die Fechtkunst auf den Hieb`, from the later nineteenth century. He appears in the bibliography as part of the compact didactic literature that supported academic and military cut-fencing practice in the German-speaking world.

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Hugo Karus

Germany fl. 1888

German author of the 1888 pamphlet Schläger, Säbel und Pistole, addressed to the German student body and its friends. Life dates were not established by the consulted catalogues.

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J. C. Lion

Germany fl. 1882–1890

German author of an illustrated treatise on thrust fencing published at Hof in 1882, followed by a related exercise sequence in 1890.

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Jan Daniel Georgens

Germany 1823 - 1886

German educator, physician and pioneer of curative education who edited widely illustrated books on games, physical education and sport.

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Joachim Köppe

Germany fl. 1619

Joachim Köppe is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Newer Discurs Von der Rittermeszigen und Weitberumbten Kunst des Fechtens” (1619). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.

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Johann Baptist Escher

Germany fl. 1833–1848

German-language fencing writer associated with Freiburg, author of the 1833 manual on cut fencing in hanging and upright guards; later bibliographies also record French-title notices in the same work family.

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Johann Christian Calander

Germany fl. c. 1650

Johann Christian Calander is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Italiänische Fechtkunst” (1650). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.

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Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths

Germany 1759 - 1839 fl. 1785–1839

German educator and pioneer of systematic physical education. His influential Gymnastik für die Jugend first appeared in 1793 and includes fencing among its exercises.

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Johann Daniel Lange

Germany fl. 1664

German fencing master at Heidelberg University and the Electoral Palatinate court. Under the printed form Jéann Daniel L’Ange he published a systematic Italian-influenced rapier treatise in 1664.

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