Max Bauer

Born in Teplitz-Schönau in 1861, he was a German publicist and journalist who later worked as an editor for the Berliner Tageblatt. He spent part of his early life in Vienna, where family hardship forced him to leave school young and earn his own living.

He began publishing journalism after the 1881 Ringtheater fire in Vienna, a disaster in which his mother and one of his brothers died. By the 1890s he was working as a journalist full time, and from 1900 he was living in Berlin.

He first published adventure stories for younger readers, then became especially known for accessible books on cultural and social history. Among his best-known works are Das Geschlechtsleben in der deutschen Vergangenheit, Der deutsche Durst, and Die deutsche Frau in der Vergangenheit. He also edited historical works for a broad audience, though later scholars noted that some of his editions were heavily reworked rather than strictly preserved from the originals.