Léon Brunschvicg (1869 –1944) was a French Idealist philosopher. He co-founded the Revue de métaphysique et de morale with Xavier Léon and Élie Halévy in 1893.
He was married to Cécile Kahn, a major campaigner for women's suffrage in France, with whom he had four children. While at the Sorbonne, Brunschvicg was the supervisor for Simone de Beauvoir's master's thesis.
Forced to leave his position at the Sorbonne by the Nazis,
Brunschvicg fled to the south of France, where he died at the age of 74. While
in hiding, he wrote studies of Montaigne, Descartes, and Pascal that were
printed in Switzerland. He composed a manual of philosophy dedicated to his
teenage granddaughter entitled Héritage de Mots, Héritage d'Idées (Legacy of
Words, Legacy of Ideas) which was published posthumously after the liberation
of France. His reinterpretation of Descartes has become the foundation for a
new idealism.
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