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Sinhôzinho

Born 1891, Santos, São Paulo
Died 1962, Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro

Also known as

Agenor Moreira Sampaio

Description

Athlete and physical-education teacher in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s and 1930s, son of a military officer and politician from Santos, who taught capoeira as a combat technique without music or ritual and kept it alive in the city.

Students (1)

  • Rudolf Hermanny
    swordsCapoeira Probable
    Probable
    Single source.
    The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.
    fact_checkassessed by FSMverified
    Frederico Muñoz
    Researcher, Martialis
    1 source expand_more
    fact_check
    Single source.
    “Artur Emídio lost against Rudolfo Hermanny, a student of Sinhôzinho”
    — Assunção, Matthias Röhrig. (2005). Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Artlink info

Sources

Identifiers

https://martial.is/entity/01M6A2VG2P495VXX89NZMED995

Cite and reuse

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Muñoz, Frederico (YEAR_PLACEHOLDER). Sinhôzinho. In Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database. https://martial.is/entity/01M6A2VG2P495VXX89NZMED995 - CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER.
BibTeX
@incollection{martialis_01M6A2VG2P495VXX89NZMED995, author = {Muñoz, Frederico}, title = {Sinhôzinho}, booktitle = {Martialis: Martial Arts Lineage Database}, year = {YEAR_PLACEHOLDER}, url = {https://martial.is/entity/01M6A2VG2P495VXX89NZMED995}, urldate = {ACCESSED_DATE_PLACEHOLDER}, note = {CC BY-SA 4.0} }

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