Adolph Erdmannsdörffer

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Adolph Erdmannsdörffer, last victim of the shock mensorship in Jena, July 25, 1845

Adolph Erdmannsdörffer (* in Altenburg ; † July 25, 1845 in Jena , buried in Wöllnitz ) is considered to be the last victim of a shock meter . However, according to other information, there was another similar death in Munich in 1847 .

Erdmannsdörffer was the son of the businessman Friedrich Eduard Erdmannsdörffer (1797–1873) and Marie Sophie born. Zinc Iron (1800-1839). As a law student he was a Fürstenkelleraner , a member of the fraternity on the Fürstenkeller, today's Jena fraternity Germania . His Mensur opponent was Gustav Konstantin Köhler from Mihla near Eisenach, a former Burgkelleran . Erdmannsdörffer caught a so-called lung fox during the personal contrahage, i.e. a stab in the lungs that resulted in his early death. This incident took on significance insofar as the impact mensorship on Parisian swords was replaced by sword or bat slashes in Jena and the fencing master Friedrich August Wilhelm Ludwig Roux , who taught at Jena University and who introduced this, had written textbooks for shock and slash fencing .

Erdmannsdörffer's tombstone in front of the church in Wöllnitz is still preserved and is probably the only one that indicates this type of death.

The later history professor Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer , who also studied in Jena, was his brother.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of birth does not appear on the enamel plate of the tombstone, but that it comes from Altenburg .
  2. ↑ Jena musarum salanarum sedes 450 years University Jena
  3. ↑ The small student fencing primer p. 29. (PDF; 6.0 MB)
  4. ↑ Friedrich Thieme , "The student grave in Wöllnitz.", In: Old and new from home 1934-1936, 6th episode, supplement to the Jenaer Volksblatt, p. 135 f. [1]
  5. ↑ otz.de, May 15, 2018, Mute Witnesses in Jena: Grave for a student who died in a duel
personal data
SURNAME Erdmannsdörffer, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fraternity members
DATE OF BIRTH 18th century or 19th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenburg
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1845
Place of death Jena