Rapier boy

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A rapier boy (from French rapière : sword ) is the implementation of a student duel with blunt weapons. This form of contracting out a contract, which is mostly reduced in its dangerousness, is probably first detectable in Göttingen at the end of the 18th century . A rapier boy could then be advertised if the underlying insult was joking or only marginal, i.e. a minor trick. Hans Conrad (1875) writes about this: "If a student insulted the other more jokingly than seriously, so that a demand could in no way take place, or if two want to mess around with each other once, one overthrows the other a black boy".

Often the rapier boy himself was less formalized than the duel with sharp weapons, the rapier boy was also occasionally carried out with wooden weapons. The suffix -junge is a similar allusion to the formalized expression "You are a stupid boy" as in the case of the beer boy, which is still used today for similar reasons .

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  • Daniel Ludwig Wallis : Most common expressions and idioms of the students . In: The Göttinger Student , Göttingen 1813
  • Hans Conrad: General beer commentary and student conversation lexicon , Leipzig 1875
  • CG Silenus: Hortus injuriarum or: Der fein Couleurbummel , Potopolis 2010, p. 81 ISBN 978-3-8391-8786-9
  • Theodor von Kobbe : Humorous memories from my academic life in Heidelberg and Kiel 1817-1819 , Bremen 1840 p. 65