While there he won a prize for his scientific work and another, in 1877 when he was eighteen, for the solution of a mathematical problem. Its chief landmarks were the publication of his four principal works: first, in 1889, the Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience), then Matter and Memory (Matière et mémoire) in 1896, Creative Evolution (L'Evolution créatrice) in 1907 and finally The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion) in 1932.īergson attended the Lycée Fontaine (now known as the Lycée Condorcet) in Paris from 1868 to 1878. His sister, Mina Bergson (also known as Moina Mathers), married the English occult author Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, a leader of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the couple later relocated to Paris as well.īergson lived the quiet life of a French professor.
Before he was nine, his parents crossed the English Channel and settled in France, Henri becoming a naturalized citizen of the Republic. His family lived in London for a few years after his birth, and he obtained an early familiarity with the English language from his mother. He was descended from a Polish Jewish family (originally Berekson) on his father's side, while his mother was from an English and Irish Jewish background. 1.4 The lectures on Change, and Bergson's later lifeīergson was born in the Rue Lamartine in Paris, not far from the Palais Garnier (the old Paris opera house).1.3 Relationship with James and Pragmatism.
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