Johann Hermann Bauer

Johann Hermann Bauer ( * June 30, 1861 in Prague, † April 5, 1891 in Gorizia ) was an Austrian chess master.

Bauer moved in 1886 from Prague to Vienna, where he first worked as an accountant. He won the year 1886/87 the championship of the Vienna Chess Society and then became a professional player. In 1887, he won the main event at the Congress of the German Chess Federation in Frankfurt am Main and was awarded the title. In 1889 he shared in Wroclaw the 5th to 7th place in the Masters Tournament with Curt von Bardeleben, Isidor Gunsberg and Louis Paulsen. In 1890, he was with a master tournament of the Austro-Hungarian Chess Federation in Graz Second, inter alia Emanuel Lasker and Georg Marco. His premature death from tuberculosis in 1891 ended his promising chess career. In his death, 1891, he scored two race successes in Vienna: he defeated Georg Marco 3-1 ( 2, -0, = 2) and Adolf Albin 4-0.

Bauer was the chess world in remembrance by his defeat against Emanuel Lasker in the international masters tournament in Amsterdam in 1889: Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam 1889.