Friedrich August Wilhelm Ludwig Roux

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Friedrich Wilhelm August Ludwig Roux (born May 20, 1817 in Gotha ; † June 2, 1897 in Jena ) was a German fencing master.

After completing high school in Meiningen , he was initially secretary to the Duke of Saxony-Meiningen. From July 1, 1839, he was employed as a fencing master at the University of Jena . Several of his ancestors and descendants were, if not only in Jena. So one can certainly speak of a fencing master dynasty.

He introduced bat fencing in Jena after the student Adolph Erdmannsdörffer had died in 1845 while being shocked . He wrote several books on push and cut fencing. He himself revised a work by the former university fencing master Wilhelm Kreussler . Building on the work of his father, his son Ludwig Cäsar Roux , who was a fencing master at the University of Leipzig , wrote a book on the art of slash fencing , which is still regarded today as a standard work in the case of the striking connections. His son Paul Roux was also a fencing master in Leipzig.

Works

  • Friedrich August Wilhelm Ludwig Roux: German Paukbuch . Mauke, Jena 1857 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • The Kreussler'sche Stossfechtschule. For use in academies and military schools based on mathematical principles, edited by FAWLRoux . 2nd Edition. Mauke, Jena 1857 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Friedrich August Wilhelm Ludwig Roux, Karl Hermann Scheidler: Instructions for cutting with straight and crooked blades . With 36 illustrations. Mauke, Jena 1840 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Ludwig Caesar Roux: Die Hiebfechtkunst: a guide to teaching and learning how to bathe from the past and steep display, taking into account the academic comment . Jena 1885 (reprint by SH-Verlag 1994, ISBN 978-3-923621-64-4 , (Student History Library 2)).

literature

  • Henner Huhle , Helma Brunck: 500 years of fencing masters in Germany. Oldest privileged profession . Frankfurt am Main 1987.
  • William H. Leckie, Jr. with Marc Mause, German Fencing: The Problem of Meaning, with an instructional translation of FAWL Roux , Die Kreussler'sche Stossfechtschule (CreateSpace, 2019).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ At http://www.ahnen.roux.de/ the following is recorded about him: Attended the Meininger Gymnasium. Initially worked as a secret clerk for the Duke of Saxony-Meiningen. In his spare time he gave fencing lessons to the students of the Drei 30acker Forest Academy. From July 1, 1839 he got a position as fencing master at the University of Jena. He was a passionate trumpet player. Initially he owned a house on Krautgasse in Jena. This was later replaced by the Zeiss company with a factory building. He later owned a house on Johannisplatz. The house had a golden cock on the roof and a polyphonic carillon. Source .: Roux family chronicle serial no. No. 062
personal data
SURNAME Roux, Friedrich August Wilhelm Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roux, Friedrich Wilhelm August Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencing master
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Gotha
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1897
Place of death Jena