Max Koch (22 December 1855 in Munich – 19 December 1931 in Breslau) was a German historian and literary critic.
He studied at the University of Munich as a pupil of Michael Bernays, receiving his PhD in 1878.
Subsequently, he continued his education in Berlin, London and Paris, and became a docent at the University of Marburg in 1879.
He was appointed an assistant professor of literary history at the University of Breslau in 1890, where in 1895 he became a full professor.
[1] He founded Zeitschrift für vergleichende Literaturgeschichte (Berlin, 1886, later Weimar).