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Scottish fencing teacher, elder brother of the poet Robert Fergusson, and author of the 1767 Dictionary explaining the terms, guards and positions used in small-sword fencing.
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Hauptmann von R. is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Anleitung zum Kontra-Bajonettfechten im Anschluss an den Entwurf der provisorischen Vorschriften für das Bajonettfechten der Infanterie” (1882). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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German jurist and long-serving professor of feudal and criminal law at the University of Tübingen. His legal writings include the methodical De bello et duello, first published in 1591 and issued in revised and expanded form in 1607.
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Heinrich Christoph Ranis is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Anweisung zur Fechtkunst für Lehrer und Lernende” (1771). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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German French-language teacher, lexicographer and skilled fencer in the Kreußler tradition. He authored the 1786 Versuch über das Contrefechten and began the Roux fencing-master dynasty at Jena.
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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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Heinrich Stephani is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Wie die Duelle auf unsern Universitäten abgeschafft werden können” (1828). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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Henri de Montfaucon de Villars is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “The Count de Gabalis” (1680). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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French gentleman of Provence and one of the foundational printed authors of French fencing literature. He is chiefly important as the author of the first known French fencing treatise, published in 1573 and dedicated to Charles IX, which marks an early stage in the institutional and literary formation of the French school of arms.
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Dutch jurist who defended a Leiden dissertation on the duel in 1876 and later served as a judge at the Amsterdam court of appeal.
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French journalist, polemicist and politician who participated in The Idler’s 1894 discussion “Duels and Duelling”.
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Henri Vallée is represented in the reviewed catalogue records as author of “Le duel: ses lois, ses règles, son histoire” (1877). No additional biographical identity or secure life dates are asserted beyond these linked manifestations.
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