Thomas Simon (lawyer)
Thomas Simon (born November 12, 1955 in Hamburg ) is a German legal scholar. He is a university professor for Austrian and European legal history at the University of Vienna .
Live and act
Simon passed his first state examination in 1985 and worked as an administrative lawyer until his doctoral scholarship. In 1992 he received his doctorate from the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg im Breisgau with a thesis on the emergence of the modern territorial state ( manor and bailiwick ). He then became a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main . There he participated in the research project on early modern police legislation. Before his habilitation in 2001, he taught at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences and at the University of Tartu , after completing his habilitation at the Universities of Cologne and Erlangen . Since September 1, 2005, he has been Professor of Austrian and European Legal History at the University of Vienna , Faculty of Law . From 2010 to 2014 he was chairman of the Association for Constitutional History .
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Simon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Thomas Simon at the University of Vienna
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| SURNAME | Simon, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |