1806 Simon constructed the estates and manor houses of Tempelberg and Gölsdorf for the Prussian Prime Minister Karl August von Hardenberg. In January 1789 Simon married Marie Madelaine Royer, who was also a descendant of French Huguenots. They had four children. The eldest son Friedrich Louis Simon also became Prussian architect. Simon died at the age of 44 in Berlin. References Fritz Schlabbach: Paul Ludwig Simon. Karlsruhe-Berlin: Doering, 1939. Reinhardt Strecke: Schinkels Kollegen. Die Oberbaudeputation und ihre Mitglieder, in: Der Bär von Berlin - Jahrbuch 2006 des Vereins für die Geschichte Berlins Alberto A. Martínez: Replication of Coulomb's Torsion Balance Experiment, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg Vol. 60, Number 6 / November 2006 Peter Heering: Das Grundgesetz der Elektrostatik.: Experimentelle Replikation und wissenschaftshistorische Analyse. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts Verlag, 1998 1771 births 1815 deaths 18th-century German architects Architects from Berlin People from the Margraviate of Brandenburg 19th-century German architects