William Gaugler, (born August 5, 1931, Highland Park, Michigan, U.S.—died December 10, 2011, Sunnyvale, California), American fencing grasp. He was one of the crucial distinguished and revered college students of the nice Italian fencer Aldo Nadi. In 1979 Gaugler established a fencing grasp’s coaching program at San José State University in California, the place he additionally taught as a member of the archaeology division. By 1988 the fencing program had develop into the primary internationally acknowledged grasp developmental course within the United States. The instruction was based mostly on the classical system established in Italy within the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Gaugler’s personal coaching was in depth, classical, and purely Italian in nature, starting along with his work underneath Nadi in Los Angeles. Gaugler then went to Europe, learning with the school of the French Military Fencing Master’s School; with Edmond Durrieu in Monaco; with Ettore Spezza, Giorgio Pessina, and Umberto Di Paola in Italy; and, lastly, with Amilcare Angelini in Germany. He handed his fencing grasp’s examination in Italy in 1976, which certified him as a fencing teacher.
Gaugler produced many articles on fencing methodology and historical past, which appeared within the main fencing magazines worldwide. His fencing books embrace Fencing Everyone (1987), which particulars the methodology of the Italian college of fencing; The Science of Fencing (1997); and The History of Fencing (1997).