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Sorry, leider nur auf Deutsch!

Posted on October 31, 2025 | 2 comments

Our first German-language installment on the Kreusslers and their placement within their contemporary fencing context.

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Posted in Fencing History; German fencing, j christoph amberger, Kreussler schule

Tagged amberger, deutsches stossfechten, Fechtgeschichte, fencing, fencing history, kreussler

How they might have looked like:

Posted on April 12, 2025 | 7 comments

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Looking at their portraits through the lens of AI.

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Posted in j christoph amberger, Kreussler schule

Tagged amberger collection, escrime, Fabris portrait, Fechtgeschichte, Heinrich von und zum Velde, kreussler

Der Renommist—The Show-Off

Posted on October 29, 2023 | 1 comment

Bootleg Kreusslerian instruction backfires

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Posted in 18th Century, Duel, duelling sword, Fencing History; German fencing, Images, Studentisches Fechten

Tagged amberger, duel, escrime, fechten, Fechtgeschichte, fencing, fencing history, kreussler, renommist, stossfechten, zachariae

The Hidden Fabri—The State Church (4): The Congregation

Posted on July 22, 2023 | Leave a comment

Was Kreussler’s original method “a snoozer”?

—by J. Christoph Amberger (Published 7/22/23)

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Posted in Antiquarian Books, fencing, fencing art, Rapier

Tagged amberger, escrime, fechten, fencing, fencing history, jena fechten, kreussler

Newly Discovered: Kreussler’s earliest-known autograph!

Posted on July 7, 2023 | Leave a comment

This entry in an album amicorum appears to be the only known first-hand document of Kreussler’s activity in Jena between 1621 and 1669.

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Posted in Antiquarian Books, fencing, fencing art, rapier

Tagged album amicorum, amberger, Burchard grossmann, Jena university, kreussler, rembrand, stossfechten

The Hidden Fabris—The State Church: The Kreussler Clan

Posted on May 23, 2023 | 4 comments

How a Jena philologist accidentally invented the Kreussler origin story.

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Posted in 17th Century, Antiquarian Books, Duel, duelling sword, Fabris, fencing, fencing art, HEMA, Images, rapier, Rapier, Studentisches Fechten, Sword Fighting

Tagged Fechterfamilie Kreussler, Fechtgeschichte, Fechtmeisterdynastie Kreussler, fencing, fencing history, Geschichte des deutschen stossfechtens, kreußler, kreussler, Wilhelm kreussler

FencingClassics to release “missing link” late 17th-ct. German fencing manuscript!

Posted on February 14, 2017 | Leave a comment

This recently re-discovered transcript by an anonymous German noble could fill an important gap in the documentation of German fencing approaches between Paschen and Schmidt.

Under the sponsorship of the new Administration, we’re preparing a limited release of the manuscript.

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Posted in 17th Century, 18th Century, Duel, fencing, fencing art, HEMA, Images, quarterstaff, rapier, smallsword, Sword Fighting, Transcriptions

Tagged alchemy, Fechtmanuskript, fencing manuscript, german swordplay, German thrust fencing, kreussler, smallsword fencing

Old School: Four Kreusslerian Foils

Posted on May 9, 2016 | 1 comment

From the late 1600’s until the first decade of the 20th century, the Kreussler method of thrust fencing dominated the use of the foil and “Rappier”. Here are four representative varieties of the weapons used…

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Posted in 18th Century, 19th Century, fencing, Foil, rapier, Rapier, smallsword, Sword Fighting, Uncategorized

Tagged deutsche Stoßfechtschule, Foil, German thrust fencing, kreußler, kreussler, Rappier, Rappir

German foil; Germany, c. 1790

Posted on January 22, 2009 | Leave a comment

German-style foil

German-style foil

German-style foil with clues to the use of the leather pad…

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Posted in 18th Century, fencing, Foil

Tagged deutsches stoßfechten, fleuret, florett, florettfechten, Foil, kreussler, stossfechten

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