Jakob Sutor von Baden

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Jacob Sutor

Description

Seventeenth-century German Freifechter, probably from Baden, of the Liechtenauer tradition. His fencing manual, printed in Frankfurt in 1612, draws closely on Joachim Meyer's 1570 treatise and Michael Hundt's of 1611.

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• menu_bookGründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtensinfo

  Kunst des Fechtens (1612)

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  “Meyer’s manual was influential enough to be reprinted in 1600 and again in 1660, and to be plagiarized in at least two seventeenth-century manuals, namely those of Jacob Sutor (1612) and Theodore Verolini (1679).”

  — Green, Thomas A.; Svinth, Joseph R.. (2010). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation info

  “In 1612, he authored a fencing manual which shows a clear relationship to the 1570 treatise of Joachim Meÿer and the 1611 treatise of Michael Hundt”

  — Jakob Sutor von Baden - Wiktenauer. Wiktenauer link history info

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  Joachim Meyer

  Kunst des Fechtens · Gründtliche Beschreibung der Kunst des Fechtens

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