Peter Falkner

{{short description|German fencing master}}

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Peter Falkner was a German fencing master, active in the late 15th century (roughly 1470s or 1480s), influenced by Paulus Kal.

He is the author of a fechtbuch, now KK 5012, at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. He wrote treatises on the usage of longswords, messers, daggers, and on various other weapons of the time period{{cite web |last1=Wiktenauer contributors |title=Peter Falkner |url=https://wiktenauer.com/index.php?title=Peter_Falkner&oldid=110675 |website=Wiktenauer |publisher=Wiktenauer |accessdate=4 June 2020 |ref=1}}

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