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Not to be confused with Henry H. Bauer.

Henry Bauër
Henry Bauër in 1871
Born	Adolphe François Henri Bauër (1851-03-17)17 March 1851 Paris, France
Died	21 October 1915(1915-10-21) (aged 64) Paris, France
Occupation	Writer, playwright and journalist
Period	1871 -
Children	Gérard Bauër (son)
Parents	Alexandre Dumas Anna Herzer-Bauër
Relatives	Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (grandfather) Alexandre Dumas fils (brother)
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Adolphe François Henri Bauër, or Henry Bauër (17 March 1851 - October 21, 1915) was a French writer, polemicist, critic and journalist. He was the son of Alexandre Dumas, also a well-known playwright and author of The Three Musketeers.

Biography

Early life

Bauër in 1871

Bauër was born from the extramarital affair of Alexandre Dumaswith Anna Bauër, a German woman of Jewish origin, whom he met in 1850. Dumas never recognized his illegitimate son, despite the similarity of their appearances. His mother - Anna Bauer (Anna Bauër) was the wife of the Austrian sales agent Karl-Anton Bauer, who lived with his family at that time in Paris . After the emigration of Karl-Anton Bauer to Australia , the child lived with his mother, who, thanks to a successful business and care, managed to provide for the upbringing and education of her son.

He studied in Lycée Louis-le-Grand. After graduating, Bauër made an attempt to get a medical and legal education, to no avail.

Works

• La Revanche de Gaëtan, Nouméa, Locamus, 1879.
• Une comédienne. Scènes de la vie de théâtre, Paris, Charpentier, 1889. lire en ligne sur Gallica
• Mémoires d’un jeune homme, Paris, Charpentier, 1895. lire en ligne sur Internet Archive
• De la vie et du rêve, Paris, H. Simonis Empis, 1896.
• Idée et réalité, Paris, H. Simonis Empis, 1899.available at Gallica
• Sa maîtresse. Comédie en 4 actes, Paris, Stock, 1903.
• Chez les bourgeois. Comédie en 4 actes, Paris, Stock, 1909.

Bibliography

• Marcel Cerf, Le Mousquetaire de la plume. La vie d’un grand critique dramatique : Henry Bauër, fils naturel d’Alexandre Dumas, 1851—1915, Paris, Académie d’Histoire, 1975, 148p.
• Luc Legeard, « De Ducos à l’or des théâtres» — Édition annotée et commentée de l’ouvrage: Mémoires d’un jeune homme, de Henry Bauër, Éditions L’Harmattan, 2013
• Le mousquetaire de la plume : la vie d'un grand critique dramatique, Henry Bauër, fils naturel d'Alexandre Dumas, 1851-1915 by Marcel Cerf https://www.worldcat.org/es/title/2151577

External links

• Literature by and about BirdCities/sandbox/8 in the German National Library catalogue
• BnF 12588435n
• Works by Henry Bauër at WorldCat Identities
• VIAF 43603637
• Alexandre Dumas at Library of Congress

Category:19th-century French journalists Category:French theatre critics Category:Pseudonymous writers Category:Dumas family