Johann Andreas Schmidt in his fencing hall in Nuremberg 1713th In the background, students can practice fencing, vaulting and wrestling. From: "body-Beshir Mende and foes defiance bidder fencing art", 8 Art.lib.III, 76, Thuringian University and State Library
Johann Andreas Schmidt was a fencing master of the early 18th Century. The art of fencing, he should have learned, among other things to break in Johann Georg Amsterdamm . Later he taught himself then as a fencing master in Nuremberg, then in Hildburghausen, in Bayreuth, again in Nuremberg, Stuttgart and finally in Tübingen, where he also died.
In Nuremberg, he was as free by the city of Nuremberg ordered fencing and retreat master his lessons. He taught there, the citizens and patricians, and their sons in the art of fencing. He also had some barons, who were traveling for a time in Nuremberg, to its customers. During his tenure at Bayreuth in 1721 he was master of fencing margravial pages at the court of Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Bayreuth. About his teaching activities in the former residence of Hildburghausen as well as his employment in Stuttgart (1728 or 1729) and in the university town of Tübingen is no more than the aforementioned known.
Johann Andreas Schmidt's major work is a book about the fencing to edge and blow, and the vaulting and wrestling. It is titled "Body-Beshir Mende and foes defiance bidder fencing art; Or challenge to light and accurate statement on impact and cutting neatly and safely; addition to a Curieuse lessons from vaulting gestellet rings and / Clearly and thoroughly described and / Darzu associated with clean / subscribed to the action / Kupffer in the light. " 1713 the book in Nuremberg by Johann Christoph Weigel was moved. At least six times since it was launched again in 1780 on two occasions (in Nuremberg and Leipzig).
The Nuremberg scholar-Lexicon (Part 7) provides us with some anecdotes from the life of Johann Andreas Schmidt.
In 1712 he reportedly because of a bet by 10 ducats six strong farmers from a pub in Hagenhausen (a district of Altdorf, near Nuremberg) thrashed out. That he is armed only been with a stick.
was also rumored to him that if he struck with the knuckles of his fist on an oak table, it lagged behind the ankle imprints of his own.
The last story is about his attitude as a page fencing master in Bayreuth in 1721. The Frankish Principality of Bayreuth was ruled at the time of Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1678-1726). That had participated in the English war, and returned from the ravaged (critically injured in the battle of Landau) and decorated using high (three-time Field Marshal in Franconia, Poland and the Reich) back. In his home throughout his Bayreuth promoted Georg Wilhelm Life a variety of construction activities. So he did during his reign the suburb of St. Georgen, build the castles of Emperor hammer and Their Garden, the Hermitage and Chateau Neustädtlein. In that Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Bayreuth, who was also a war veteran and patron of the arts, Johann Andreas Schmidt fought in 1721 in the vestibule of the royal hall to the sample with two fencing masters and disarmed in the fighting each of the two several times by Ligaden. Then he got from the enthusiastic Marquis immediately replace fencing master as a page with a salary of 1,000 guilders.
In Nuremberg, he was as free by the city of Nuremberg ordered fencing and retreat master his lessons. He taught there, the citizens and patricians, and their sons in the art of fencing. He also had some barons, who were traveling for a time in Nuremberg, to its customers. During his tenure at Bayreuth in 1721 he was master of fencing margravial pages at the court of Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Bayreuth. About his teaching activities in the former residence of Hildburghausen as well as his employment in Stuttgart (1728 or 1729) and in the university town of Tübingen is no more than the aforementioned known.
Johann Andreas Schmidt's major work is a book about the fencing to edge and blow, and the vaulting and wrestling. It is titled "Body-Beshir Mende and foes defiance bidder fencing art; Or challenge to light and accurate statement on impact and cutting neatly and safely; addition to a Curieuse lessons from vaulting gestellet rings and / Clearly and thoroughly described and / Darzu associated with clean / subscribed to the action / Kupffer in the light. " 1713 the book in Nuremberg by Johann Christoph Weigel was moved. At least six times since it was launched again in 1780 on two occasions (in Nuremberg and Leipzig).
The Nuremberg scholar-Lexicon (Part 7) provides us with some anecdotes from the life of Johann Andreas Schmidt.
In 1712 he reportedly because of a bet by 10 ducats six strong farmers from a pub in Hagenhausen (a district of Altdorf, near Nuremberg) thrashed out. That he is armed only been with a stick.
was also rumored to him that if he struck with the knuckles of his fist on an oak table, it lagged behind the ankle imprints of his own.
The last story is about his attitude as a page fencing master in Bayreuth in 1721. The Frankish Principality of Bayreuth was ruled at the time of Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1678-1726). That had participated in the English war, and returned from the ravaged (critically injured in the battle of Landau) and decorated using high (three-time Field Marshal in Franconia, Poland and the Reich) back. In his home throughout his Bayreuth promoted Georg Wilhelm Life a variety of construction activities. So he did during his reign the suburb of St. Georgen, build the castles of Emperor hammer and Their Garden, the Hermitage and Chateau Neustädtlein. In that Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Bayreuth, who was also a war veteran and patron of the arts, Johann Andreas Schmidt fought in 1721 in the vestibule of the royal hall to the sample with two fencing masters and disarmed in the fighting each of the two several times by Ligaden. Then he got from the enthusiastic Marquis immediately replace fencing master as a page with a salary of 1,000 guilders.
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