Anton Friedrich Kahn

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Anton Friedrich Kahn (1739)

Anton Friedrich Kahn (* 1713 in Echte ; † May 13, 1797 in Helmstedt ) was a German fencing master .

Life

Georg Daniel Heumann : Student duel near Göttingen around 1750

Kahn was a student of the fencing master dynasty Kreussler in Jena and is said to have learned fencing like this one in Italy. After the first two fencing masters Anton Sebert (1734) and Krösewell (1735), who only worked for a short time in Göttingen , he became the third university fencing master of the Georg-August University of Göttingen and was here from 1736 to 1759 as one of the retreat masters of the university for training of students in academic fencing . His successor in Göttingen was the university fencing master JF Scholz for a period from 1759 to 1790, under whom the Göttingen Hieber prevailed as a student fencing weapon. Kahn went from Göttingen to Helmstedt; there he became Oberfechtmeister of the University of Helmstedt and carried out this activity until his death.

In 1739 he published his basic work on the art of fencing in Göttingen, illustrated by the then university engraver Christian Friedrich Fritzsch . A revision of his standard work appeared there at the beginning of his time in Helmstedt in 1761.

For his services to physical exercise in what is now Lower Saxony , he was accepted into the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.

Fonts

  • Initial reasons for the art of fencing: In addition to a preface about the benefits of the art of fencing and the advantages of this instruction. Printed by Johann Christoph Rudolph Schultzen, Göttingen 1739.
  • The beginnings of the art of fencing: in addition to a preface in which a brief history of the art of fencing is presented and the benefits of this as well as the advantages of this instruction are dealt with. New and increased edition. Weygand, Helmstedt 1761.

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Volume 6, G. Fleischer the Younger, 1806, pp. 393-394.
  • Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Volume 10, Meyersche Buchhandlung, 1803, p. 53. (digitized version)
  • Arnd Krüger : Valentin funnel's heirs. The theory-practice problem in the physical exercises at the Georg-August University (1734 - 1987). In: H.-G. Schlotter (Hrsg.): The history of the constitution and the departments of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1994, ISBN 3-525-35847-4 , pp. 284-294.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , Ernst Wilhelm Bernhard Eiselen: The German gymnastics. 1816, p. 268.
  2. ^ Gabriel Christoph Benjamin Busch : Handbook of Inventions. Volume 4, parts 2-5, JGF Wittekindt, 1808, p. 98.
  3. ↑ To this in detail: Stephan Brüdermann: Göttingen students and academic jurisdiction in the 18th century. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1990, p. 183 ff.
  4. ^ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : Correspondence: directories, subject index. Volume 2, CH Beck, 2004, p. 301.
  5. ^ Discussion of the revision in the Göttingische Schehrten advertisements of June 13, 1761 (digitized version)
personal data
SURNAME Kahn, Anton Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahn, Anthon Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencing master
DATE OF BIRTH 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Real
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1797
Place of death Helmstedt