Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1927
Name: Henri Bergson
Birth: 18 October 1859, Paris, France
Death: 4 January, 1941, Paris, France
Residence at the time of the award: France
Prize Motivation: “in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented”
Field: Philosophy/essay writing
Language: French
Philosophical system demonstrating Nobel’s idea of acknowledging with his Prizes, not human deeds but new ideas revealed through select personalities. Regain for man’s consciousness the divine
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Henri Bergson from group photo below. Literary Promotion of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm, Paris 5th arrond.) 1878. Author: Pierre Petit. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Henri Bergson, on chair, 3rd from right. Literary Promotion of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm, Paris, 5th arrond). Photographer Pierre Petit School photographic Fund… PHO D / 2/1878/5. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Henri Bergson. Source: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons.
Birth centenary commemorate stamp designed and engraved by Raoul Serres. Model image above. France, November 7, 1959.
Henri Bergson’s Dissertation on Aristotle: Quid Aristoteles de loco senserit, Paris, 1889. Author: Henri Bergson. Source: Leiden University Library/Wikimedia Commons.
He crafted his dissertation Time and Free Will, which was submitted, along with a short Latin thesis on Aristotle (Quid Aristoteles de loco senserit), for his doctoral degree which was awarded by the University of Paris in 1889.
Henri Bergson’s Dissertation: Time and Free Will, which he submitted, along with a short Latin thesis on Aristotle (Quid Aristoteles de loco senserit), Paris, 1889. Author: Henri Bergson. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Henri Bergson. Scan of ARTWORK No. 3909, Page 103, the day of receipt, possibly 1918. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Henri Bergson, 1927. Author: A.Gerschel. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Portrait of Henri Bergson by J.E. Blanche 1891 to illustrate Henri Bergson article, 2007. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Place Henri-Bergson, Paris 8e. 2010. Author: Wikimedia Commons / Mu. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Commemorative plaque, 47 boulevard de Beauséjour, Paris 16th. “Henri Bergson, French philosopher, 1859-1941, lived in the house where he died on January 3, 1941.”, 2010. Author: Wikimedia Commons / Mu. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Telegram from Henri Bergson, president of the International Committee for Intellectual Cooperation to Inazo Nitobe, under-general secretary of the League of Nations and director of the International Bureaux Section, 1924. Date: February 2013. Author: MartinGrandjean. Source: Wikimedia Commons.