Humorist, librettist, dramatic critic
Born in Gyoersziget, Hungary. Although he studied medicine at the University of Vienna, he gained fame for his literary activities. He wrote under the pen name Don Spavento, and contributed numerous satirical articles to the Vienna press. In 1879 he became dramatic critic of the Wiener Extrablatt. Bauer is the author of Sieben Schwaben and Der Arme Jonathan. Being the official librettist of the Theater a.d. Wien, he wrote, with Hugo Wittman, the libretto for Milloecker’s Der Hofnarr and ‘Das Sonntagskind’. Julius Bauer translated several Hungarian classics, amongst them Mor Jokai’s Aranyember (“Man of Gold”).