Henri Berr
Henri Berr (born January 31, 1863 in Lunéville , † November 19, 1954 in Paris ) was a French science historian and philosopher.
Berr was professor of rhetoric at the Lycée Henri IV .
In 1900 he founded the magazine Revue de synthèse (until 1931 Revuede synthèse historique) to overcome the specialization of the sciences. In 1925 he founded the Center Internationale de Synthèse (CIS) based in the Hotel de Nevers (Paris, Rue Colbert). The Department of History of Science, headed by Aldo Mieli and founded in 1929, was important for the establishment of the subject in France. For Berr, the history of science was an important discipline for the integration of the natural sciences and the humanities. The headquarters of the society with its library in the mezzanine of the Hotel de Nevers became the meeting place for science historians in Paris, and their activities resulted in theAcadémie internationale d'histoire des sciences .
Fonts
- La synthèse en histoire. Essai critique et théorique, Paris 1911
See also
literature
- Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 361
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Berr, Henri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French science historian and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Luneville |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 1954 |
| Place of death | Paris |