Barnarr Macfadden

Barnarr Macfadden (1868-1955); real name: Bernard Adolphus Macfadden; American physical culturist and publisher. Born near Mill Spring, Missouri. He founded a magazine entitled "Physical Culture" (1898) and introduced a method of healing he called "Physcultopathy". He published pulp magazines and founded a religion he called "Cosmotorianism, the happiness religion." He published some material by Fulton Oursler.

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*"Merriam-Webster's Biographical Dictionary" (1995)