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Christoff Rösener

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Christoff Rösener
Born 16th century
Died date of death unknown
Occupation Fencing master
Movement Marxbrüder
Genres Fencing manual
Language Early New High German
Notable work(s) Ehren Tittel und Lobspruch
der Ritterlichen Freyen Kunst
der fechter
(1589)

Christoff Rösener was a 16th century German Marxbrüder and certified Master of the Longsword. In 1579, he authored a treatise on fencing entitled Ehren Tittel und Lobspruch der Ritterlichen Freyen Kunst der fechter ("Honors and Praise to the Free and Chivalric Art of Fencing"), which offered a history of the art of fencing and the Marxbrüder guild, as well as advice to students of the art.

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