author
Henry Baerlein
1875–1960
A restless early-20th-century British writer, he ranged widely across politics, travel, and culture, turning far-flung places into vivid books for curious readers. His work moves from revolutionary Mexico to the Balkans, Burma, and the Arabic literary world.
2 Audiobooks
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
by Henry Baerlein
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1
by Henry Baerlein
About the author
Born in 1875 and identified in library and archive records as Henry Philip Bernard Baerlein, he was a British author whose books show an unusually wide range of interests. Surviving catalogs and public-domain listings connect him with travel writing, political history, poetry, and translation, suggesting a career shaped by curiosity about countries in upheaval and cultures beyond Britain.
His published works include Mexico, the Land of Unrest, The Birth of Yugoslavia, The House of the Fighting-Cocks, and The Singing Caravan, as well as work connected with Abu'l Ala, The Syrian. Taken together, those titles point to a writer drawn to revolutions, borderlands, and literary exchange rather than to one narrow subject.
Baerlein died in 1960. A full, clearly confirmed portrait was not easy to verify from reliable image sources available here, but the record that remains in archives and digitized libraries presents him as a globe-minded author whose books captured the tensions and fascination of a rapidly changing world.