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Austrian imperial fencing author associated with the multivolume System der Fechtkunst à la contrepointe for thrust and cut, including historical and duelling material.
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Fencing master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and author of The Amateur of Fencing (1809). He was the father of Edinburgh fencing master and writer George Roland.
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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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Swedish naval officer and gymnastics educator who became a leading teacher and administrator at the Royal Central Gymnastics Institute; author and periodical editor in physical education.
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Swedish naval officer and gymnastics educator who directed the Gymnastiska centralinstitutet and prepared naval bayonet- and sabre-fencing regulations.
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French dramatist, poet, historian and translator. A former associate of Saint-Simon, Léon Halévy wrote extensively for the stage and on literary and historical subjects, including comedies centred on 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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French-born fencing master Louis Chappon, known in Hungary as Lajos Chappon. He directed fencing schools in Pest and later Kolozsvár and wrote manuals on fencing and the rules of the duel.
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French nobleman and writer on duelling. Louis Alfred Le Blanc, comte de Chatauvillard, formulated a widely cited French code of duel procedure in the 1836 Essai sur le duel, later translated into German as Duell-Code.
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Italian priest, historian, archivist and librarian to the Este court. A foundational scholar of medieval Italy, Muratori published large documentary collections and also addressed private peace-making and the history and use of duelling.
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Conventional or pseudonymous attribution associated with the Liber ignium. The historical identity and date are debated; appearances in composite manuscripts indicate source-component attribution, not authorship of a fencing treatise.
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French magistrate, dramatist and librettist Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier, who wrote under the name Mélesville. He produced comedies, vaudevilles, melodramas and opera librettos, frequently in collaboration.
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