Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

Awarded the Prize “in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brillant skill with which they have been presented.”

French philosopher. Bergson was born in Paris on October 18, 1859. Bergson was educated at the Lycée Condorcet and the école Normale Supérieure, where he studied philosophy. After a teaching career as a school in various secondary schools, Bergson was appointed to the école Normale Supérieure the chair of philosophy at the Collége de France. In 1914 he was elected to the Académie Francaise; from 1921 to 1926 he was president of the Commission for Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations. Bergson died in Paris on January 4, 1941.
Major Works:
Time and Free Will (1889); An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903); Matter and Memory (1896); Creative Evolution (1907); The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932); Laughter (1900); Mind-Energy (