Henri Bergson

HenriLouis Bergson was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that the processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.

Bergson was born in the Rue Lamartine in Paris, not far from the Palais Garnier in 1859. His father, the pianist Micha Bergson, was of a Polish Jewish background . His greatgrandmother, Temerl Bergson, was a wellknown patroness and benefactor of Polish Jewry, especially those associated with the Hasidic movement. His mother, Katherine Levison, daughter of a Yorkshire doctor, was from an English and Irish Jewish background. The Bereksohns were a famous Jewish entrepreneurial family of Polish descent. Henri Bergsons greatgreatgrandfather, Szmul Jakubowicz Sonnenberg, called Zbytkower, was a prominent banker and a protg of Stanisaw August Poniatowski, King of Poland from 1764 to 1795.

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