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Model:
Eugen Sandow
born:
Friedrich Wilhelm Müller,
German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈmʏlɐ];
(2 April 1867 – 14 October 1925)
Was a German bodybuilder and showman from Prussia.
( Before being absorbed into Germany,
Prussia was a major military and economic power in Central Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. )
Born in Königsberg, Sandow became interested in bodybuilding at the age of ten during a visit to Italy.
He left Prussia in 1885 to avoid military service and traveled throughout Europe, becoming a circus athlete and adopting Eugen Sandow as his stage name, adapting and Germanizing his Russian mother's maiden name, Sandov.
Sandow was acclaimed on his 1905 visit to India, at which time he was already a "cultural hero" in the country at a time of strong nationalistic feeling. The scholar Joseph Alter suggests that Sandow was the person who had the most influence on modern yoga as exercise, which absorbed a variety of exercise routines from physical culture in the early 20th century.
Sandow built his physique to the exact proportions of his Grecian Ideal, and is considered the father of modern bodybuilding, as one of the first athletes to intentionally develop his musculature to predetermined dimensions.