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John Simon Guggenheim (December 30, 1867 – November 2, 1941) was an American businessman, politician and philanthropist. Early life and education. Simon Guggenheim Hall at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. Guggenheim Hall at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1911.
La Guggenheim Fellowship è erogata dalla John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation creata da Simon Guggenheim, ex-senatore degli Stati Uniti, e dalla moglie Olga Hirsch in memoria di John Simon, il primogenito dei loro due figli, morto diciassettenne nel 1922 per una grave mastoidite.
La John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation è stata fondata nel 1925 da Olga e Simon Guggenheim in memoria del figlio, morto il 26 aprile 1922.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions.
Simon Guggenheim. (1867 – 1941) John Simon Guggenheim was the son of Meyer Guggenheim and Barbara Guggenheim, and was the younger brother of Daniel Guggenheim and Solomon R. Guggenheim. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 30, 1867.
Simon Guggenheim was a man of wide influence and reputation. He had a long and notable career in business. He served from 1907 to 1913 as United States Senator from Colorado. And he gave generously in support of philanthropic and educational causes and institutions.
About The Foundation. In 1925, Senator Simon Guggenheim and his wife, Olga, established the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in memory of their late son, a promising young scholar who died at the age of 17.
