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Max Solling
1 October 2006 - 05:16 @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Solling

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

Contents

  • 1 Biography
  • 2 Publications
  • 3 Awards
  • 4 References

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.

Publications

  • 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

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)

References

  • Leichhardt Historical Journal website
  • Australian Sports Medal Website
  • Medal of the Order of Australia website
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