Paul Ludwig Simon

The Secret Oberbaurat Paul Ludwig Simon ( born January 12, 1771 in Berlin, † February 14, 1815 ibid ) was a professor at the Berlin Academy of Architecture, as well as Oberland Planning Director for the brands Pomerania and Prussia at the Prussian Oberbaudeputation.

Life

Paul Ludwig Simon was born in 1771 as son of the merchant Samuel Simon and his wife Anne Susanne Pitra. Both parents were descended from French Huguenots who had left after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685 France and settled in Berlin and many others.

From 1787 Simon attended the Academy of Arts in Berlin for the purpose of learning the architecture. He received his first training by the Oberhof Baurat Friedrich Becherer. After 2 years of education, Simon was in October 1789, on the recommendation of Becherer as " supernumerarier Conducteur " employed by the Royal Oberhof Building Department, where he worked in various fields. In 1791, he led the foundation for the construction of the new Stadtvogtei in Berlin as a manager of Friedrich Gilly and in 1792 appointed a " real Conducteur ". In addition to his work at Oberhof Building Department, he was appointed to continue as a student at the Art Academy and in 1797 after the completion of training as a building inspector.

In January 1798 Simon married the brunette Marie Madelaine Royer from Wollin in Pomerania, who was also French Huguenot origin. The couple had four children. The eldest son, Frederick Louis Simon was also an architect.

In November 1798, Simon was appointed professor of architectural class at the Academy of Arts and a year later, adopted as Professor of Physics in the College of the new institution as part of the foundation of the Berlin Academy of Architecture. From 1800 he also took over the mechanics of solid bodies, hydraulics, machine theory and estimation of the building. After the death of Gilly's in August 1800, he took over the chair and the content of teaching in the field of optics and perspective. After a reorganization of the Academy and an associated pooling of subjects Simon was responsible in 1803 for the teaching of urban design and in 1804 for the building construction, which he took over from Frederick Becherer.

From the autumn of 1809 had to Simon because of his service in the technical Baudeputation, whose member he was a Secret Oberbaurat from 1804 until his death in 1815, and its own buildings to stop working at the Academy for reasons of time.

During this period, from 1806-1810, Simon was driven by the absence of the suspended because of the war napeolonischen government salary payments to the brink of ruin, if he had not been supported by his friend Minister Karl August von Hardenberg. Oral tradition of the family, he accompanied the Prussian Queen Louise on her flight from Berlin to Tilsit in October 1806 because he had caused by its operations travel powers that allowed a discreet travel to the Queen.

About his work as a professor and architect addition, Simon also dealt with research in the field of electrochemistry and published several essays on this topic:

• Results of recent studies of galvanism particularly in terms of its chemical reactions ( General Journal of Chemistry, Leipzig)
• Description of some experiments on the effect of the voltaic pile, on water, in the relationship made ​​famous by Mr. Ritter experiences on this subject ( ibid )
• As to the production of an acid and an alkali salt by the action of the voltaic pile to water ( ibid )

His work in this environment was also presented in the play " The Name of Fame". This was part of the exhibition LABORATORY listed celebration of the city of Antwerp in the course of 400 years.

Paul Ludwig Simon died in 1815 at the age of 44 years from a liver disease.

Construction

A more comprehensive construction activity is to determine only from the year 1803, however, Simon was already in the years before working at different locations.

The following list contains the attributable him with security buildings:

• Rebuilding the village church in Falkenberg; Crypt vault of the family von Humboldt (now Berlin, 1795)
• Construction of the house Brüderstraße 40 (Berlin, 1803)
• Construction of the house Dorotheenstrase 20 together with Becherer (Berlin, 1803-1805 )
• Reconstruction of the house Friedrichstrasse 72 (Berlin, 1803)
• Reconstruction of the house Wilhelmstrasse 76, later Foreign Office (Berlin, 1805)
• Order, or new construction of buildings on the Hardenberg goods Temple Mount and Gölsdorf (1804-1806)
• Royal Seehandelsgebäude and State Chancellor's residence (1809-1811)
• Reconstruction of the house Wilhelmstrasse 65, Palace of Prince Ferdinand (Berlin, 1809-1813 )
• Construction of the Higher Regional Court in Königsberg (1809-1811)