Category Archives: Schläger

American Explorer and U.S. Financier:

Posted on April 9, 2024 | Leave a comment

What this 1844 Schläger has to do with the Met’s Arms and Armor Collection!

Posted in 19th Century, Armory, duelling sword, Fencing History; German fencing, Images, Schläger, Studentisches Fechten, Weapons

Tagged amberger, amberger collection, dueling sword, Elisha Riggs, fechten, Fechtgeschichte, fencing, fencing history, Schläger, William Riggs arms & armor collection.

Schläger by another name

Posted on October 25, 2023 | Leave a comment

The Reformschläger‘s split-second moment of marginal fame

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Posted in fencing, fencing art, Fencing History; German fencing, Saber, Schläger, Studentisches Fechten

Tagged Duell auf leichten säbel, Fechtgeschichte, fencing history, reformschläger, Studentisches Fechten

Edged-Weapons Chemistry: The Stanford Professor’s Schläger

Posted on March 19, 2023 | Leave a comment

John Stillman’s souvenir of his student days at the university of Würzburg!

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Posted in 19th Century, duelling sword, Images, Schläger, Studentisches Fechten, Weapons

Tagged amberger collection, Friedrich von Hardtmuth, John Maxson Stillman, mensurschläger, Stanford chemistry department, Stillman Stanford chemistry Collecting dueling swords

Saved by the Bell: How Richard Wagner contracted six duels and ended up not fighting a single one!

Posted on September 27, 2022 | Leave a comment

—by J. Christoph Amberger

In 1831, Richard Wagner enrolled at the Universität Leipzig. He had been acquainted with German student fraternities since the political unrest following the July Revolution of 1830 and managed to get accepted as a Fuchs (pledge) at the Corps Saxonia—just eight days before the Easter vacation began and academic life ground to a hold.

**A duel with bell-guard Schlägers at Leipzig in 1811**—21 years before the events in this article, but you see how someone could end up with a debilitating Armfuchser!

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Posted in 19th Century, Duel, fencing, Schläger, Studentisches Fechten

Tagged akademisches Fechten 1832, Mensur Glockenschläger, Richard Wagner Corps Saxonia, Richard Wagner in leipzig

Broken water pipe leads to discovery of rusty saber

Posted on October 18, 2018 | Leave a comment

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Posted in 20th Century, fencing, Gear, Schläger, Sword Fighting, Weapons

Tagged Korbsäbel, korbschläger, Säbelfund Magdeburg, Schläger

Last Blood: The grave of the last German student killed in a thrust duel

Posted on April 28, 2017 | Leave a comment

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The last German student to die as a result of a duel using thrusting swords—not unlike the French épée de combat—was the young jurist Adolph Erdmannsdörffer.

Buried in the village cemetery at Wöllnitz, now integrated into the Thuringia town of Jena, his grave marker recalls him as “das letzte Opfer der Stoßmensur” (the last victim of the thrust Mensur).

The worst part: It was his own fault.

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Posted in Duel, fencing, Schläger, smallsword

Tagged amberger, burschenschaft, deutsches stoßfechten, jena, pariser, stoßduell, stoßmensur

Silence of the Sticks: Why wooden weapons fell out of favor in 19th-century Germany

Posted on January 30, 2013 | Leave a comment

The Irish beat each other with shilelaghs, the English drew blood with singlesticks and quarterstaves, the French wielded canne and baton. The Portuguese still play at jogo de pao and the Italians had the bastone. The Germans, however, showed no interest in wooden weapons, at least after the Fechtschul traditions of dussack and assorted staff weapons (most of which with a blade of one kind or another) had disappeared. How come? Continue reading →

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Posted in 19th Century, fencing, Schläger, Stick Fighting, Weapons

Tagged baston, bastone, cut fencing, georg venturini, hiebfechten, j christoph amberger, la cane, shilelagh, stick fighting, stock fechten

Legends of the Sword: Satan fights a Mensur

Posted on April 10, 2012 | 1 comment

The German novelist and poet Wilhelm Hauff (1802—1827) is more famous for his fairy tales than for his novels. Unreasonably so, because his Memoiren des Satan alone are better written and more enjoyable than all the semi-competent writage they throw at German literature students in college these days.

Hauff studied philosophy and theology at Tübingen. In 1826, he wrote Mitteilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan (Memoirs of Beelzebub), in which he works in some of the fencing activities of his brother, a member of the Tübinger Burschenschaft.

For the connoisseur of Gedecktes Hiebfechten, this is a rare monument of armament and strategy of the early Mensur… Continue reading →

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Tagged Biedermeier Mensur, memoiren des satan, memoirs of satan, mensur, Schläger, tübingen mensur, wilhelm hauff

Kombative Knick-Knacks: Tin Men Mensur

Posted on January 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

Who’d possibly want a matched set of tin figures staging a Biedermeier-era Mensur?

Err… yes, who indeed. Possibly the same kind of person who has a sextett of Spelter and bronze fencing figurines staring at his desk?

This one we haven’t acquired—yet. But would accept it from our Leibbursch any time. Continue reading →

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Tagged Biedermeier Mensur, pewter figurines, Prestel, tin figures, Zinnfiguren Mensur

“Only the Coward Retreats”—A mid-19th century Korbschläger

Posted on September 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

The expansive basket of the Mensur-Korbschläger not only protects head and hand of the fencer. In some cases, it served as a record of Mensuren fought. Like this 1844 weapon… Continue reading →

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Tagged amberger collection, Bonner SC, Corps Palatia Bonn, korbschläger, mensur, mensurschläger, Montet Taverny

Category Archives: Schläger

American Explorer and U.S. Financier:

What this 1844 Schläger has to do with the Met’s Arms and Armor Collection!

Schläger by another name

The Reformschläger‘s split-second moment of marginal fame

Edged-Weapons Chemistry: The Stanford Professor’s Schläger

Saved by the Bell: How Richard Wagner contracted six duels and ended up not fighting a single one!

Broken water pipe leads to discovery of rusty saber

Last Blood: The grave of the last German student killed in a thrust duel

Silence of the Sticks: Why wooden weapons fell out of favor in 19th-century Germany

Legends of the Sword: Satan fights a Mensur

Kombative Knick-Knacks: Tin Men Mensur

“Only the Coward Retreats”—A mid-19th century Korbschläger

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