Ulrich Simon

Ulrich Ernst Simon (21 September 1913 in Berlin – 31 July 1997 in London) was an Anglican theologian of German Jewish origin.

Simon was sent to England by his non-practising Jewish parents in 1933. His father, the composer James Simon, later died in the Holocaust. His older brother, Jörn Martin Simon, died in the Moscow Trials in 1937.

Simon converted to Anglicanism and was made a deacon in 1938 and ordained priest in 1939. He was University Lecturer, King's College London, 1945-60, Reader in Theology 1960-72, Professor of Christian Literature 1972-80, Dean 1978-80.

Works

• Theology of Salvation a study of Isaiah 40-55 (1953)
• Heaven in the Christian Tradition (1958)
• The Ascent to Heaven (1961)
• The end is not yet: a study in Christian eschatology (1964)
• A Theology of Auschwitz (1967)
• Sitting in Judgement autobiography (1978)