Max Solling

Max Charles Solling (OAM; b. 1942) is an Australian urban and sports historian.

Biography

Born in Sydney, Max Solling has been a resident of Glebe since 1960. He was educated at Newington College (1955-1959)[1] 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.[2] He is also a qualified and practicing solicitor.

Publications
  • Town and Country: A History of the Manning Valley (2014), Halstead Press, ISBN 9781920831561
  • An Act of Bastardry: Rugby league axes its first club: Glebe District Rugby League Football Club 1908 to 1929 (2014), Walla Walla Press, ISBN 9781876718206
  • Grandeur and Grit: A History of Glebe (2007), Halstead Press, ISBN 1-920831-38-X
  • The Boatshed on Blackwattle Bay (1993), Glebe Rowing Club, ISBN 0-646-14811-7
  • Leichhardt: On the Margins of the City (1997) with Peter Reynolds, Allen & Unwin, ISBN 186448408X (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)[3]
  • Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly through researching, recording and publishing the history of Glebe (2005)[4]
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References
  1. Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 185
  2. Leichhardt Historical Journal website Archived 26 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Australian Sports Medal website
  4. Medal of the Order of Australia website


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