Rabbi Shimon Sidon was a Hungarian rabbi; born at Nadash on January 24, 1815 to Yehuda Sidon from Kunitz and Eidel Sonnenfeld.
Education
At age thirteen in 1829 he entered the Yeshiva of the Chassam Sofer and studied there for nine years until 1838. He became close to his teacher who he writes was like a father to him, he served him and ate at his table (something very few students of the Chasam Sofer merited).
Career
He died at Trnava on December 20, 1891 (19 Kislev 5652 on the Hebrew calendar). There in Nadash he taught young students for seven years until he was appointed rabbi of Cifer in 1845. He was rabbi of Cifer for ten years where he taught bright students until in 1856 he was appointed as rabbi of the newly founded Jewish community of Trnava which had been closed to Jews since they were expelled from it in c.