Talk:Henri Bergson

Mathematical Problem?

The article mentions that HB won an award for solving some math problem but it gives no further details. If they are available they would be interesting especially because it might have some bearing on his standing as something more than a "psychologist" in his debate with Einstein.--Jrm2007 (talk) 20:46, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Nationality, Ethnicity & Religion

In response to the above discussion

• Henri Bergson was born in France to foreign born parents. Since the French Revolution, kids born in France with at least one parent born in France are automatically French citizens. This is what they call Double droit du sol. Furthermore, after living in France for 5 years, any kid is eligible to be naturalized as a French citizen. This is most likely what happened to HB.

• Henri Bergson is clearly of Jewish descent, but without more extensive research, it is hazardous to qualify him as a Polish Jew (most likely Ashkenazi on his father's side) or English Jew (most likely Sephardi on his mother's side). I therefore suggest that we use the more general of Jewish descent to refer to his ancestry in this article.

In response to this Edit and this Reversion :

• Towards the end of his life, out of solidarity with fellow Jews who were persecuted during World War II, Henri Bergson stood by his origins and willingly registered himself as Israélites with the Vichy administration. But according to the well referenced French Wikipedia article about Bergson, he nevertheless might have grown closer to the Catholic Faith than to his ancestral Jewish Faith. I therefore suggest that we remove the French-Jewish Philosopher attribute in the lead and replace it with French Philosopher, moving the ethnic and religious references to the biography section of the article, as customary in WP. X-ode (talk) 06:06, 15 July 2018 (UTC)