Jakob Erckrath de Bary

Jacob Erckrath de Bary (* when Jacob Erckrath, March 10, 1864; † August 14, 1938 ) was a German fencer and sports official.

Jacob Erckrath de Bary translated together with Arturo Gazzera the book The fencing with epee and saber of Masaniello Parise from Italian, after he had admired the art of fencing in Rome. His goal was this type of fencing in Germany to establish where even the fencing in solid scale was common. He is the founder of the modern Sportfechtens in Germany.

Jacob Erckrath de Bary was 1893-1921 1st Chairman of the Fencing Club Offenbach and in 1911 co-founded the German Fencing Federation and its president until 1925. Moreover, de Bary in 1913 was one of the godfathers of the International Fencing Federation FIE ( Federation Internationale d' Escrime ).

Erckrath de Bary first participated at the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, when he took in the Fencing Tournament in all three types of competition, and ultimately the team saber fencing won the gold medal. At the Olympic Games 1908 in London, he also stepped up to the individual and the team saber and epee fencing, but could not celebrate more successes. Again, four years later he once again took part to the Olympics in the team saber fencing, but there was also unsuccessful.

Works

• The fencing with epee and saber of Masaniello Parise. The only authorized translation by C. Arturo Gazzera and Jacob Erckrath -de Bary; Leipzig F.W. Gloeckner & Co., around 1890.

Weblink

• Jacob Erckrath de Bary at Sports- Reference.com (English)