Arturo Gazzera

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Carlos Arturo Gazzera (* 1870 , † 1945 ) was an Italian fencing master .

Gazzera graduated from the Italian fencing school " Scuola Magistrale di Scherma " in Rome, where he met Jakob Erckrath de Bary . He later moved to Vienna as a trainer, and Erckrath de Bary brought him to Offenbach am Main in 1899 because he wanted to establish the Italian style of fencing in Germany. Together they translated Masaniello Parise's book Fencing with Sword and Saber from Italian. Gazzera worked as a fencing master in Offenbach for more than 40 years.

He was married to Henny Klauer (1878–1925), their son Fritz Gazzera and granddaughter Sigrid Chatel also fought.

Two of his students, Jacob Erckrath de Bary and August Petri , won in 1906 with the saber team; this was the first international medal for the German fencing sport. After the end of the First World War, he trained among others the foil fencer Helene Mayer at the fencing club Offenbach , who won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 . In 1936 she won silver in Berlin.

Gazzera was a Knight of the Italian Crown Order .

Works

  • Fencing with sword and sword by Masaniello Parise. Sole authorized translation by C. Arturo Gazzera and Jacob Erckrath-de Bary; Leipzig FW Gloeckner & Co., around 1890.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archivalia: The second oldest German fencing club with an exemplary club archive. archiv.twoday.net, accessed on November 21, 2014 .
  2. ↑ The History of Fencing. Fechtsport Paderborn, accessed on November 21, 2014 .
  3. ^ Explanations of the stations in the old cemetery (PDF; 25 kB) In: Offenbach.de. Retrieved March 29, 2016 .
  4. ^ Grave of Arturo Gazzera (1870–1945). Flickr, accessed November 21, 2014 .
  5. ↑ fechtnews09: Celebration to honor the FCO honorary president Hans H. Hubert. (PDF; 593 kB) FC Offenbach, November 21, 2005, accessed on November 21, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Fencing with sword and saber by Masaniello Parise. Sole authorized translation by C. Arturo Gazzera and Jacob Erckrath-de Bary; Leipzig FW Gloeckner & Co., around 1890, DNB 362007055 (for 2nd edition). Cover .
personal data
SURNAME Gazzera, Arturo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gazzera, Carlos Arturo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian fencing master
DATE OF BIRTH 1870
DATE OF DEATH 1945