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Line 2: {{Use dmy dates\|date=October 2021}} [[File:Anna Lemminger and Franz Burda.jpg\|thumb\|[[Aenne Burda\|Aenne]] and [[Franz Burda]], 9 July 1931. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dueling scars were seen as a badge of honor in Germany and Austria, making their owners "good husband material".]] Visible [[scar]]s sustained in [[dueling]] have been seen as a "'''badge of honour'''" since as early as 1825. Known variously as "'''{{lang\|de\|Schmisse}}'''", "'''{{lang\|de\|Mensur}}''' scars", "'''the bragging scar'''", "'''smite'''", "'''{{lang\|de\|Schmitte}}'''", or "~~'''~~{{lang\|de\|Renommierschmiss}}~~'''~~", dueling scars were popular amongst [[upper class]] Germans and Austrians involved in [[academic fencing]] at the start of the 20th century. Being a practice amongst university students, it was seen as a mark of their class and [[honour]], due to the status of dueling societies at German and Austrian universities at the time.<ref name="DeMello p 237">DeMello, Margo (2007). ''Encyclopedia of body adornment'' Greenwood Publishing Group. [https://books.google.com/books?id=s0122BsqrZwC&pg=PA237 p. 237]. {{ISBN\|978-0-313-33695-9}}.</ref> The practice of [[duel]]ing and the associated scars was also present to some extent in the [[Military of Germany\|German military]].<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Keener \|first=Candace \|date=4 May 2009 \|title=Real Men Have Dueling Scars \|url=http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/05/04/real-men-have-dueling-scars/ \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729063707/http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/05/04/real-men-have-dueling-scars/ \|archive-date=29 July 2010 \|publisher=HowStuffWorks}}</ref> Foreign tourists visiting Germany in the late 19th century were shocked to see the students, generally with their {{lang\|de\|Studentcorps}}, at major German universities such as [[University of Heidelberg\|Heidelberg]], [[University of Bonn\|Bonn]], or [[University of Jena\|Jena]] with facial scars – some older, some more recent, and some still wrapped in bandages.<ref>"Where students fight. Scarred Faces are common sights at Heidelburg." ''Daily Bulletin Supplement''. San Francisco. 12 July 1890.</ref>

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