Max Solling
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Max Charles Solling (OAM; b. 1942) is an Australian urban and sports historian.
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.[1] For his senior education Solling was educated at Newington College (1955–1959)[2] 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.[3] He is also a qualified and practicing solicitor. Solling has been a resident of Glebe since 1960.
