Henri Gouhier

Henri Gouhier ( born December 5, 1898 in Auxerre, † March 31, 1994 in Paris) was a French philosopher and university professor with a focus on the history of philosophy.

Gouhier studied at the École Normale Supérieure (1919-1922) and received his doctorate in 1926. Between 1929 and 1940 he taught philosophy at the University of Lille, from 1940 to 1941 at the University of Bordeaux and from 1941 to 1968 at the Sorbonne. He has emerged as a historian of philosophy with numerous publications mainly on the history of French philosophy from Descartes to Bergson.

In 1979 he was admitted to the Académie française.