Lung fox

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Lung pincher is an old name from the student language of the 18th century, but also the beginning of the 19th century for one at the then Stoßmensuren with stabbing usual, often fatal injury of the lung .

Johann Georg Puschner: The Ruffing Student , copper engraving from 1725

This possibility of serious injury led to the introduction of bat fencing in the student associations, first in Göttingen , from 1767 onwards . The new weapon required for this, the Göttinger Hieber , was the forerunner of the basket bat that is still used today . Step-by-step fencing was banned by all German universities, for example in Breslau in 1819 and most recently in Jena in 1840.

Since butt-fencing was popular with theology students because of its relatively invisible throws , the changeover took place only hesitantly. The last shock meter in Würzburg is documented for the year 1860 . The last verifiable fatal accident with a shock meter occurred in Jena in 1845 ; the tombstone of the victim at that time, the fraternity member Adolph Erdmannsdörffer , is still preserved today at the church in Wöllnitz . According to other sources, a further shock mensorship with a fatal outcome was fought out in Munich in 1847 .

The inscription to a copper engraving by Johann Georg Puschner from 1725 gives an insight into the dangerousness and unpredictability of student fencing in the 18th century :

THE RUFFING STUDENT Who
fought nicely and happily without shaving himself off,
before whose cheeky fist everyone is horrified:
a weak hand can pierce his great chest.
A dwarf has often put giants in sand and crypts

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kevin McAleer: Dueling. The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siecle Germany. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1994. p. 121.
  2. ↑ Peter Hauser: For guidance: About the drum doctor system in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century with special consideration of Heidelberg. In: Peter Hauser (Ed.): Schmisse, Lappen, Boneensplitter - Paukärztliche Schriften des 19. Century. Pp. 3–41, here p. 15.
  3. ↑ Birgitt Hellmann, Doris Weilandt: Jena musarum salanarum sedes. 450 years of the university city of Jena. Vopelius, Jena 2008. p. 37.