| Birth Date: | 8 June 1844 |
| Birth Place: | Kołobrzeg |
| Death Place: | Strasbourg |
| Alma Mater: | Friedrich Wilhelm University |
| Thesis Title: | De relationibus inter constantes duarum linearum secundi ordinis, ut sit polygonum alteri inscriptum circumscriptum alteri |
| Thesis Url: | http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/index.php?id=11&PPN=PPN271214554&DMDID=DMDLOG_0002&L=1 |
| Thesis Year: | 1867 |
| Thesis1 Year: | and |
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| Academic Advisors: | Karl Weierstrass, Ernst Eduard Kummer |
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Maximilian Simon (born 8 June 1844 in Kołobrzeg; died 15 January 1918 in Strasbourg) was a German historian of mathematics and mathematics teacher. He was concerned mostly with mathematics in antiquity.
Born into a Jewish family,[1] he studied from 1862 to 1866 at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, obtaining his Ph.D. from Karl Weierstrass und Ernst Eduard Kummer[2] He was a mathematics teacher in Berlin from 1868 to 1871, and in Strasbourg from 1871 to 1912, where he became an honorary professor of the university.