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| This piece is called the weak point of the arms, and means that you strike with your right hand on his left near the fist, so that he must bend down.
 
| This piece is called the weak point of the arms, and means that you strike with your right hand on his left near the fist, so that he must bend down.
| Dis stucke heisset die schweche des Arms, das du mit deiner rechten Hand schlahtst uber seine lincke, nahe bey der faust, so mus er sich biegen.
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| Dis stucke heißet die schweche des Arms, das due mit deiner rechten Handt schlahest uber seine lincke, nahe bey der faust, so mus er sich biegen.
  
 
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Revision as of 15:36, 5 August 2016

Fabian von Auerswald
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Born 1462
Died ca. 1537
Occupation Wrestling master
Patron John Frederick zu Saxony
Genres Wrestling manual
Language Early New High German
Notable work(s) Ringer Kunst (1539)
Manuscript(s) 2° Codex MS Philos. 62
(ca. 1539)
Concordance by Michael Chidester

Fabian von Auerswald (1462 - after 1537) was a 16th century German wrestling master. He served as wrestling master to Elector John Frederick of Saxony, and mentions in his introduction that he instructed the children of the Elector and of members of the court in wrestling. In 1537, he completed an extensive treatise on grappling, which was later illustrated by Lucas Cranach and published posthumously in 1539 under the title Ringer kunst: funf und Achtzig Stücke ("The Art of Wrestling: Eighty-Five Devices"). This treatise saw wide circulation and was the foundation for Paulus Hector Mair's treatment of the subject in his own fencing manuals of the 1540s.

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