Maria Joseph Anton von Brassier de Saint Simon-Vallade

Count Joseph Maria Anton Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade (8 August 1798 – 22 October 1872) was a Prussian diplomat.

Early life Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade was born in Brixlegg, Tyrol to a French noble family that emigrated to Germany during the French Revolution. His parents were the Privy Councilor Marie Louis Joseph Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade, who was born in Strasbourg, and his wife Louise von Stampfer.

He attended school in Züllichau (in eastern Brandenburg) and graduated from high school in June 1818.

Career From 1819 to 1820, he served in the Prussian Army as a one-year volunteer. At the same time, he studied law and literature at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University in Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karl University in Heidelberg. In December 1820, he and ten other students founded the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg. He passed the auscultator (trainee lawyer) examination in April 1822 and was awarded a doctorate in the same year. After he passed the traineeship exam in November 1823, he was called up to the Prussian Foreign Service in May 1824. He initially served as an attaché in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From October 1826 to the spring of 1827 he was temporarily employed at the German embassy in Saint Petersburg before passing his diplomatic examination in October 1827. As Legation secretary he came to the embassy in Lisbon at the beginning of 1828 and to the embassy in Istanbul in 1829. Temporarily its acting head, he was involved in the Treaty of Adrianople in 1829. In December 1832 he was given the status of Legation councilor. From July 1833 to the beginning of 1838 he was Secretary of legation at the embassy in Paris.

Personal life On 6 June 1848, he married Marie Alexanrovna, Comtesse de Ribeaupierre (1816–1885), a native Russian who was a daughter of Count Aleksandr Ivanovich Ribeaupierre, a diplomat and chief chamberlain, and Ekaterina Mikhailovna Potemkina. Among her siblings were Princess Tatiana Alexandrovna Yusupova. In 1857 Brassier was elevated to the rank of count by the Prussian King Frederick William IV.

Count Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade died on 22 October 1872 in Florence.