Eugen Sandow

Eugen Sandow , born Friedrich Wilhelm Mller, was a German pioneering bodybuilder known as the father of modern bodybuilding.

Sandow was born in Knigsberg, Prussia on April 2, 1867, to a German father and a Russian mother. His family were Lutherans and wanted him to become a Lutheran minister. 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.

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