# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-ludwig-simon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:50:55.556Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-ludwig-simon"
name: "Paul Ludwig Simon"
slug: "paul-ludwig-simon"
description: "Paul Ludwig Simon, also known as Paul Louis Simon, was a German architect and professor at the Building Academy (Bauakademie) in the faculty of architectural physics and a privy architectural counsellor at the Prussian Higher Council of Architecture in Berlin. In the latter position Simon was the predecessor of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Simon was serving as well as Senior Director of public works for the Marches of Pomerania and Prussia. Beside these fields of activity Simon did – at that time in Europe well known – research work in the field of Electrochemistry and Galvanism. He published different articles on these subjects in German scientific journals – as for example “Annals of Physics”."
tagline: "German architect and scientist (1771–1815)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Paul_Ludwig_Simon.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1771-01-12"
deathDate: "1815-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           33.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.80162
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%BA_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "باول لودفيغ سيمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پول لودفيج سيمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ludwig_Simon"
    title: "Paul Ludwig Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ludwig_Simon"
    title: "Paul Ludwig Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ludwig_Simon"
    title: "Paul Ludwig Simon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2061040"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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