“ SIMROCK, KARL JOSEPH (1802-1876) , German poet and man of letters, was born on the 28th of August 1802 at Bonn, where his father was a music publisher. He studied law at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, and in 1823 entered the Prussian civil service, from which he was expelled in 1830 for writing a poem in praise of the French July revolution. Afterwards he was admitted as lecturer at the university of Bonn, where in 1850 he was made a professor of Old German literature ”

“ See N. Hocker, Karl Simrock, sein Leben und seine Werke (1877) ; H. Düntzer, “Erinnerungen an Karl Simrock,” in Monatsschrift für Westdeutschland (1877) , and E. Schröder's article in Allg. deutsche Biographie. ”