Johann Friedrich Simon

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Johann Friedrich Simon , also Jean-Frédéric Simon (born May 23, 1751 in Strasbourg ; died around 1829 in Paris ), was a French teacher, printer and politician.

biography

Simon was the son of a wig maker. When the French Revolution broke out, Simon took an active part as a member of the Club des Jacobins de Strasbourg, called "Société des Amis de la constitution de Strasbourg". After studying theology, he devoted himself to pedagogy, became a professor and opened an educational institution for young Protestant girls in Strasbourg in 1779. Around 1788 he was the tutor of the future Prince and Chancellor Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich . He worked on the secret mission of the "Illuminati" and was a member of the lodges "Caroline aux Trois Paons" and "Ferdinand aux Neuf Étoiles". From December 1789 to August 1793 he wrote and published a weekly paper, the "Patriotic Wochenblatt". Simon was a member of the Society of Friends of the Constitution of Strasbourg from September 18, 1790. From October 1, 1790, together with his later brother-in-law André Meyer, he published the daily newspaper "Geschichte der Gegenwartzeit", which after 1792 developed tendencies towards Jacobins and Disappeared at the end of 1793. Simon came to Paris in 1792 and was a member of the insurrection committee on August 10th .

The Provisional Executive Council sent him to the borders as Commissioner of the Rhine and Moselle Army. Simon and Gabriel Grégoire, his brother-in-law also from Alsace, were appointed on January 13, 1793 and arrived in Mainz on January 31 . Simon announced in March 1793 in Mainz the closure of the Mainz Jacobin Club and the simultaneous re-establishment of a “Société des Allemands libres”. This successor organization, known in German as the Society of Friends of the Republic , was supposed to replace the previous club while excluding the previous moderate members. Just like its role model, the Jacobin Club in Paris, it was primarily intended to prepare the content of the parliamentary debate in the Rhenish-German National Convention . As "Commissaire national du pouvoir exécutif pour Mayence et les pays du Rhin" he was a member of the Mainz Defense Council during the siege of this city . He renounced another career in politics and returned to education in 1794. As a German teacher at the Prytanée Militaire Saint-Cyr around 1800, then from 1806 at the Lycée Napoléon in Paris. After the fall of the Empire, he was hired as a tutor to the Duke of Chartres.

Works

  • Notions élémentaires de grammaire allemande, à l'usage des élèves du prytanée , Levrault frères, Paris, 1802, p. 111
  • Précis de grammaire générale servant de base à l'analyse de chaque langue particulière et d'introduction à ma grammaire allemande Paris, J.-M. Eberhart, 1819

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joseph-Marie Quérard , La France littéraire ou dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens et gens de lettres de la France, ainsi que des littérateurs étrangers qui ont écrit en français, plus particulièrement pendant les XVIIIe et XIXe siècles: Sea - Uza, tome 9 Firmin Didot Freres, Paris, 1838, p. 164
  2. ↑ Theodor Renaud : Johann Friedrich Simon - a Strasbourg pedagogue and demagogue (1751-1829)
  3. ^ Gustav Seibt, review by Wolfram Siemann : Metternich: Stratege und Visionär CHBeck review of March 14, 2016 in Süddeutsche Zeitung
  4. ^ Jean-Frédéric Simon (1751-1829?) In: Bibliothèque nationale de France
  5. ^ Ludwig Uhlig: Georg Forster. Life adventure of a learned world citizen (1754–1794). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, p. 320 ISBN 3-525-36731-7
  6. ↑ Loïc Chalmel: Réseaux et philanthropinistes pédagogie au 18e siècle. Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften, Bern et al. 2004, ISBN 3-03910-101-3 , p. 217.
  7. ↑ Anne Cottebrune: "Deutsche Freiheitsfreunde" versus "Deutsche Jakobiner." To demystify the research area "German Jacobinism." In: Discussion Group History of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, issue 46. Bonn, 2002, pp. 12 and 13.
  8. ↑ Simon Jean-Frédéric
  9. ^ Franz Dumont : Occupation and "Revolution": Report of the French government commissioner Simon on his activities in Mainz 1793 in: Mainzer Zeitschrift. Vol. 83. Mainz, Verlag Philipp von Zabern; Pp. 123-143
personal data
SURNAME Simon, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simon, Jean-Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French teacher, printer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH around 1829
Place of death Paris