Simon Bacher came of a family of scholars, and counted as one of his ancestors the well-known Moravian-German rabbi Jair Ḥayyim Bacharach.
He studied Talmud in his native city, in Mikulov under Menahem Nahum Trebitsch, and in Eisenstadt and Bonyhád under Moses Perles.
When nineteen years old Bacher returned to Liptovský Mikuláš, where, despite the business in which he was engaged, he continued his studies enthusiastically.
He celebrated scholars, preachers, statesmen; orators, singers, philanthropists, and writers; and Jewish legends and history also provided subjects for his poems, in which were mingled reflections and expressions of sentiment, myths, and historical events.
Bacher contributed to many Jewish magazines, and wrote also a number of occasional poems published separately.