Christian Henry Tobler

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Christian Henry Tobler has been a longtime student of swordsmanship, especially as it applies to the pursuit of the chivalric ideals. A passionate advocate of the medieval Liechtenauer School, his work in translating and interpreting Sigmund Ringeck's commentary firmly established him as an important contributor to the growing community of Western martial artists. This work is encapsulated in the 2001 title Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship: Sigmund Ringeck's Commentaries on Johannes Liechtenauer's Verse. A training guide for modern practitioners, Fighting with the German Longsword, followed in 2004. His most recent work prior to [In Saint George's Name: An Anthology of Medieval German Fighting Arts] is In Service of the Duke: The 15th Century Fighting Treatise of Paulus Kal, a facsimile, translation, and analysis of a lavishly illustrated Fechtbuch.

Mr. Tobler was born in 1963 in Paterson, New Jersey. A graduate of the University of Bridgeport's computer engineering program, Mr. Tobler has worked as a software developer, product manager, and marketing specialist in the analytical instrumentation and publishing fields. He is the Grand Master of the Order of Selohaar, an eclectic, mystic order of chivalry that he co-founded in 1979. A veteran of 20 years of tournament fighting, he is also an avid collector of reproduction arms and armour.

He has been focused on the study of medieval Fechtbücher since the late 1990s. He has taught classes at the Schola St. George Swordplay Symposium, in the San Francisco Bay area, and at four of the annual Western Martial Arts Workshops, appeared as a guest on Cablevision News Channel 12's daily program "The Exchange", and has traveled the United States teaching numerous weekend-long seminars. He has also lectured at the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In 2002 he was named to the Advisory Board of Swordplay Symposium International (SSI).

Mr. Tobler lives in the United States, in rural Oxford, Connecticut, with his wife Maureen Chalmers, where he teaches a weekly class on Medieval German combat, surrounded by far too many books and pieces of arms and armour for the size house that they live in.

Wiktenauer contributions

Translations

The following articles include translations by Christian Henry Tobler.

• Paulus Kal
• Zornhaw
• Johannes Liechtenauer
• Paulus Kal Fechtbuch (MS KK5126)

Publications

Christian Henry Tobler has produced or contributed to the following books and journal articles.

Author

• Finley, Jessica; Christian Henry Tobler (2022). "Warp and Weft: The Bauman Fight Book's Place in the Tapestry of German Fechtkunst." Bauman's Fight Book: Augsburg University Library Ⅰ.6.4º 2: 85-102. Ed. by Michael Chidester. Medford, MA: HEMA Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-953683-27-4.
• Hagedorn, Dierk; Christian Henry Tobler (2021). The Peter von Danzig Fight Book. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-53-8.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2001). Secrets of German Medieval Swordsmanship. Union City, CA: Chivalry Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-891448-07-2.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2006). In Service of the Duke: The 15th Century Fighting Treatise of Paulus Kal. Highland Village, TX: Chivalry Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-8914482-5-6.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2010). Messer Fighting from the Glasgow Fechtbuch. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2010). In Saint George's Name: An Anthology of Medieval German Fighting Arts. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-0-9825911-1-6.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2011). Captain of the Guild: Master Peter Falkner's Art of Knightly Defense. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-09-5.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2020). "Addenda and Esoterica in the Thott Talhoffer Codex." Alte Armature und Ringkunst: The Royal Danish Library Ms. Thott 290 2º: 179-186. Ed. by Michael Chidester. Somerville, MA: HEMA Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-953683-04-5.
• Tobler, Christian Henry (2022). Lance, Spear, Sword, & Messer: A German Medieval Martial Arts Miscellany. Wheaton, IL: Freelance Academy Press. ISBN 978-1-937439-64-4.

Translator

• Bauman's Fight Book: Augsburg University Library Ⅰ.6.4º 2 (2022). Trans. by Christian Henry Tobler; Jessica Finley. Ed. by Michael Chidester. Medford, MA: HEMA Bookshelf. ISBN 978-1-953683-27-4.