Dieter Simon (legal scholar)

This article deals with the legal scholar (Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, * 1935). On the legal scholar (Marburg, Göttingen, Jena, * 1936) see Dietrich Simon (legal scholar) .

Dieter Simon (born June 7, 1935 in Ludwigshafen ) is a German legal scholar .

From 1955 to 1959 he studied law , history and philosophy in Heidelberg and Munich and received his doctorate in legal papyrology under Wolfgang Kunkel in 1962 . As assistant to Kunkel , he completed his habilitation in 1967 with a thesis on procedural law in late antiquity. From 1968 to 1991 he held the chair for civil law and Roman law at the University of Frankfurt am Main , and from 1980 to 2003 director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main .

From 1989 to 1992 Simon was chairman of the Science Council , to which he had been a member since 1985. In the college year 1988/1989 he was a research fellow at the historical college in Munich. From 1995 to 2005 he was President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . As an honorary professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin , he has been involved in legal theory training there since 1996. He is a corresponding member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres , the Academy of Athens and the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , a full member of the Academia Europaea and an honorary doctorate from the Universities of Athens and Bologna .

Dieter Simon is the founder and editor of the “Research on Byzantine Legal History”, the - now discontinued - “Legal History Journal”, the “Gegenworte” and the “ myops ”.

Simon's students include many legal theorists, legal historians and legal philosophers, including Ulrich Falk , Marie Theres Fögen , Maximilian Herberger , Rainer Maria Kiesow , Elisabeth Koch , Kent D. Lerch , Regina Ogorek , Bernd H. Oppermann and Andreas Schminck .

Fonts

• (Ed.): Marriage law and family property in antiquity and the Middle Ages (= writings of the historical college, colloquia, vol. 22). Munich 1992, IX, 168 pp. ISBN 978-3-486-55885-2 ( digitized version )
• Praise of the eunuch (= writings of the historical college, lectures, 24). Munich 1994 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Simon in the catalog of the German National Library
• Simon, Dieter .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
• Dieter Simon on the website of the Humboldt University Berlin
• Website of nouns