Eduard von Simson
| Eduard von Simson | |
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| President of the Frankfurt Parliament | |
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In office December 1848 – May 1849 |
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| President of the North German Confederation's Parliament | |
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In office 1867–1871 |
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| President of the Reichstag | |
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In office 1871–1877 |
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| President of the Reichsgericht | |
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In office 1 October 1879 – 1 February 1891 |
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10 November 1810 Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia |
| Died | 2 May 1899 (aged 88) Berlin, German Empire |
| Profession | jurist |
Martin Sigismund Eduard von Simson (November 10, 1810 – May 2, 1899) was a German jurist and distinguished liberal politician of the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, who served as President of the Frankfurt Parliament as well as the first President of the German Parliament and of the Imperial Court. He was ennobled by Frederick III in 1888.
Eduard Simson was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, in a Jewish family. The family converted to Protestantism in 1823. After the usual course at the Gymnasium of his native town, he entered its university in 1826 as a student of jurisprudence, and specially of Roman law. He continued his studies at Berlin and Bonn, and, having graduated doctor juris, attended lectures at the École de Droit in Paris. Returning to Königsberg in 1831 he established himself as a Privatdozent in Roman law, becoming two years later extraordinary, and in 1836 ordinary, professor in the faculty of the university.
Like many other distinguished German jurists, pari passu with his professorial activity, Simson followed the judicial branch of the legal profession, and, passing rapidly through the subordinate stages of auscultator and assessor, became adviser (Rath) to the Landgericht in 1846. In this year he stood for the representation of Königsberg in the National Assembly at Frankfurt am Main, and on his election was immediately appointed secretary, and in the course of the same year became successively its vice-president and president.
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