Max Solling

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Max Charles Solling OAM is an Australian urban and sports historian.

1 Biography
2 Publications
3 Awards
4 References

[edit] Biography

Born in Sydney, Max Solling has been a resident of Glebe since 1960. He was educated at Newington College and the University of Sydney where he was awarded a University Sporting Blue in boxing and was Australian Universities boxing champion. In 1972 he completed his MA on the development of nineteenth-century Glebe and he was a founding editor of the Leichhardt Historical Journal. He is a solicitor and a TAFE teacher.

[edit] Publications

Grandeur and Grit: A History of Glebe (2007), Halstead Press, ISBN 1-920831-38-X
The Boatshed on Blackwattle Bay by Max Solling (1993), Glebe Rowing Club, ISBN 0-646-14811-7
Leichhardt: On the Margins of the City by Max Solling and Peter Reynolds (1997) Allen & Unwin. (A social history of Leichhardt and the former municipalities of Annandale, Balmain and Glebe.
Contributor, Oxford Companion to Australian Sport
Contributor, Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket

[edit] Awards

Australian Sports Medal as a local sporting historian (2000)
Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly through researching, recording and publishing the history of Glebe (2005)