ARMORUM ARCHIVE
Francisco Santos de la Paz is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Ilustracion de la destreza indiana” (1712). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Spanish calligrapher, paleographer, archivist, and man of letters born in Toledo and active mainly in Madrid. Though not a technical fencing master, he is relevant to the project through his connection with eighteenth-century Spanish sword and writing culture, including material touching Toledo blade traditions and the broader learned world in which martial and artisanal knowledge circulated.
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French fencing author associated with `Nouvelles et utiles observations pour bien tirer des armes`, a mid-eighteenth-century technical work on swordsmanship. He belongs to the mature smallsword era and appears as a practical pedagogical writer whose treatise circulated in print even though the surviving personal biography is slight.
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Belgian magistrate and writer associated with Namur and Liège. François Charles Joseph Grandgagnage pursued archaeology, history and place-name studies alongside his judicial career and published literary and political works, including a letter on duelling.
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François Coppée is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “L’Almanach de l’escrime” (1889). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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François Dancie is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Discours des armes” (1600). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French anti-duelling writer known from the 1791 Paris pamphlet Le Duel considéré dans tous les rapports historiques, moraux et constitutionnels.
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German physician, gynaecologist and former military medical officer; author of Der Paukarzt on medical attendance at student fencing bouts.
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Austrian imperial lieutenant and fencing writer who, with Anton Lüpscher, freely adapted René-Julien Châtelain’s fencing treatise into German in 1819.
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Baltic German writer and theologian active in the Russian Empire. He authored the 1883 Dorpat moral and rational critique of duelling, Der Blutbann des Duells.
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German physician, poet, political writer and editor; author of Über Duell und Ehre.
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Austro-Hungarian army officer and fencing instructor, identified on the 1894 title and preface as Franz Litomyský, k.u.k. Oberleutnant in Infantry Regiment No. 92 and teacher at the infantry cadet school in Budapest. He co-authored the systematic sabre manual with Gustav Ritter von Arlow.
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