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