Jules Simon
Jules François Simon ( born December 31, 1814 Lorient, † June 8, 1896 in Paris) was a French politician and philosopher.
Simon came from a cloth merchant family. He studied at the École normale supérieure philosophy, from 1839 he worked as a lecturer and professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne. He was considered one of the greatest Hellenist of his time. After a failed candidacy in 1847, he was in 1848 as a Republican for the department of Côtes -du-Nord member of the Chamber of Deputies. At the beginning of his political career, he devoted himself to the development of the French school system. In 1849 he resigned in order to join the Council of State can. Finding himself as a clear opponent of Napoleon III. was positioned, he lost shortly afterwards all political offices.
From 1863 Simon was as a deputy of the opposition in the Corps Législatif (Second Empire ). There he led the moderate wing of the Republican Party. From 1870 to 1871 he served as Minister of Education, member of the provisional government of national defense. Léon Gambetta's resignation as Minister of the Interior on February 6, 1871 was largely due to Simons operate.
With the establishment of the Third French Republic in 1871, Simon was elected to the National Assembly and was one of the first government of the new Republic as Minister of Public Instruction. In 1875 he was appointed a senator for life. From 1876 to 1877 Simon was the successor of Jules Dufaure himself Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior at the same time.
Simon, who described himself as a Republican and Conservative, was released on May 16 in 1877 through the President Patrice de Mac -Mahon, which provoked a constitutional crisis. Reason was also the accusation of Left Republicans to Léon Gambetta and Jules Ferry, that he was too soft on clerical circles. He was against the Boulangisten. His political career, Simon decided in the Senate, where he again devoted mainly school policy issues.
From 1879 to 1881 he was editor of the newspaper Le Gaulois.
Works in German translation
- Jules Simon on anti-Semitism in: Hermann Bahr; Hermann Greive ( eds): Anti-Semitism: An international interview. Jewish publisher, Königstein, 1979 ( reprint 2005), pp. 61-64, ISBN 3-7610-8043-3.