{{short description|Australian urban and sports historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2016}} '''Max Charles Solling''' (OAM; b. 1942) is an Australian urban and sports historian.
==Biography== Max Solling was born the second child and only son of Jessie (née Webb) (1917–2017) and Rex Erie Solling (1909–1980). His father was an accountant, and then later a bank manager, with the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney from 1926 until retirement in 1972. Solling's early life was spent in Bathurst and Albury in New South Wales.<ref>[https://www.cbcbank.com.au/images/People/images/Family/Solling%20-%20A%20Century%20of%20Banking%20in%20rural%20NSW.docx A century of banking in rural NSW. Three generations of bankers] Retrieved 12 April 2022.</ref> For his senior education Solling was educated at Newington College (1955–1959)<ref>Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 185</ref> and then at 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''.<ref>[http://www.lhj.org.au/about.aspx ''Leichhardt Historical Journal'' website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826033241/http://lhj.org.au/about.aspx |date=26 August 2006 }}</ref> He is also a qualified and practicing solicitor. Solling has been a resident of Glebe since 1960.
==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)<ref>[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/970559 Australian Sports Medal website]</ref> * Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community, particularly through researching, recording and publishing the history of Glebe (2005)<ref>[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1058081 Medal of the Order of Australia website]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}}
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