# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-dorothea-simon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:06:01.531Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-dorothea-simon"
name: "Maria Dorothea Simon"
slug: "maria-dorothea-simon"
description: "Maria Dorothea Simon was an Austrian psychologist and scholar of social work. Born into a Jewish family in Vienna near the end of the First World War, she was educated in Austria and Czechoslovakia but emigrated to London after the latter was annexed by Germany in 1938. While in the United Kingdom, she worked at the Hampstead Nurseries, an experimental child care centre run by the psychoanalyst Anna Freud. She was married to the jurist and resistance activist Joseph Simon."
tagline: "Austrian social worker, sociologist and psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Maria_Dorothea_Simon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Austria"
  isoCode: "AT"
birthDate: "1918-08-06"
deathDate: "2022-03-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.469258666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/mariadorothea.simon"
    handle:    "mariadorothea.simon"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-dorothea-simon-2b489528/"
    handle:    "maria-dorothea-simon-2b489528"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Simon_(sociologist)"
    title: "Maria Simon (sociologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Dorothea_Simon"
    title: "Maria Dorothea Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%96%CE%AF%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%BD_(%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8C%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%82)"
    title: "Μαρία Ζίμον (κοινωνιολόγος)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Simon_(sociologist)"
    title: "Maria Simon (sociologist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7_%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "ماریا سیمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Simon_(sosiolog)"
    title: "Maria Simon (sosiolog)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15435910"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump