Biogrpahy of Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson, born October 18, 1859 in Paris, was a French philosopher who descended from a Polish Jewish family. In 1900, Bergson became a professor at the Collège de France where he devoted much of his time to politics and, after World War I, international affairs.

Henri Bergson is well known for his amazing philosophical works which won him the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature. Man works have since been translated into English; including Time and Free Will (1889) and The Creative Mind (1934).

Bergson had a dualistic philosophy that the world contains two opposing tendencies, life force and resistance of the material world. He believed that human beings know matter through intellect which they use to measure the world, using them to formulate doctrines of science and entities which seperate units within space. Bergson's beliefs also range towards intellect being intuition, which he said derives from animal instincts.

After retiring from the Collège, Bergson completed a new great work, Les Deux Sources de la religion et de la Morale, which reiterated and broadened his theories of morality, religion and art in 1935.

Although Bergson wished to convert to Catholism, he showed solidarity to the Jewish religion until his last days. Henri-Louis Bergson died on January 4, 1941 and is buried at Cimetière de Garches, Hauts-de-Seine - a Roman Catholic priest said prayers at his funeral by his request.

Also check out Henri Bergson quotes