Ulrich Ernst Simon 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

James Simon (composer)

James Simon was a German composer, pianist and musicologist.-Biography:...

, later died in the Holocaust. His older brother, Jörn Martin Simon, died in the Moscow Trials

Moscow Trials

The Moscow Trials were a series of show trials conducted in the Soviet Union and orchestrated by Joseph Stalin during the Great Purge of the 1930s. The victims included most of the surviving Old Bolsheviks, as well as the leadership of the Soviet secret police...

 in 1937.

Simon converted to Anglicanism and was ordained deacon 1938, priest 1939. He was University Lecturer, King's College London

King's College London

King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

, 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)