Charles Nalder Baeyertz

Charles Nalder Baeyertz (15 December 1866 – 5 June 1943) was a New Zealand teacher, journalist, editor, publisher and music critic. He was born on 15 December 1866 in Richmond, Victoria, to bank manager Charles Baeyertz and his wife Emilia Baeyertz. When his father died in a shooting accident, Baeyertz was put into boarding school and his mother became a famous evangelist. He graduated with a licentiate from the London College of Music and moved to New Zealand with his wife Bella.

Whilst in New Zealand, Baeyertz founded a journal, The Triad, which he edited and co-owned for 32 years. The journal became the most successful literary magazine of the time, supposedly found "in every club, hotel and reading-room throughout Australasia".

Biography

Charles Nalder Baeyertz was born on 15 December 1866 in Richmond, Victoria. His father, Charles Bayertz, was an Anglican bank manager for the National Bank of Australasia and his mother was Emilia Baeyertz, a Welsh-Jewish woman who had been disowned by her family for marrying outside her religion. He also had a sister, Marion, two years his junior. Baeyertz's father died in a shooting accident in 1871, and his mother then converted to Christianity, going on to become a famous evangelist.

Baeyertz attended Wesley College as a day boarder. He later travelled with his mother to South Australia where he attended Prince Alfred College in Kent Town, Adelaide. There he launched a school magazine, but control was taken over by the school when he mocked one of the teachers. and a number of books on public speaking. Baeyertz died at Rylstone, New South Wales on 5 June 1943. and by 1923 it included writers such as P. L. Travers, giving her an entire section called A Woman Hits Back.