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

Bauer moved from Prague to Vienna in 1886, where he initially worked as an accountant. He won the championship of the Vienna Chess Society at the turn of the year 1886/87 and then became a professional player. In 1887 he won the main tournament at the Congress of the German Chess Federation in Frankfurt am Main and was awarded the title of Master. In 1889 he shared 5th to 7th place in the master tournament in Breslau with Curt von Bardeleben, Isidor Gunsberg and Louis Paulsen. In 1890, he came second in a master tournament organised by the Austro-Hungarian Chess Federation in Graz, ahead of Emanuel Lasker and Georg Marco, among others. His premature death from tuberculosis in 1891 ended his promising chess career. In 1891, the year of his death, he achieved two competitive successes in Vienna: he defeated Georg Marco 3:1 (+2 =2 -0) and Adolf Albin 4-0.

Bauer was remembered by the chess world for his defeat against Emanuel Lasker at the International Master Tournament in Amsterdam in 1889: Lasker - Bauer, Amsterdam 1889.

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