Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz

Description

Seventeenth-century German Freifechter from Diez an der Lahn, fencing master at the University of Marburg and, from 1623, at the Ritterakademie in Sorø. He was teaching assistant to Salvator Fabris, and his rapier treatise (1611, printed 1620) expands Fabris's teachings.

Teachers (1)

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  Salvator Fabris

  swordsItalian school of swordsmanship Probable

  Probable

  Two Wiktenauer pages: teaching assistant to Fabris, and his most notable student; same publisher.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Two Wiktenauer pages: teaching assistant to Fabris, and his most notable student; same publisher.

  “He served as a "Mantenitore" (Vorfechter or teaching assistant) to Salvator Fabris, most likely in Denmark before 1606.”

  — Hans Wilhelm Schöffer von Dietz. Wiktenauer link history info

  “through the influence of his students and their students (most notably Hans Wilhelm Schöffer), he became the dominant figure in German fencing throughout the 17th century and into the 18th.”

  — Salvator Fabris. Wiktenauerlink history info

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