Xavier Léon

{{Short description|French-Jewish philosopher and historian}}

Xavier Léon (21 May 1868 in Boulogne-Billancourt – 21 October 1935 in Paris) was a French-JewishJimena Canales, The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time, Princeton University Press (2015), p. 80 philosopher and historian of philosophy.

In 1893 Léon – together with Élie Halévy and others – helped found the French philosophical journal Revue de métaphysique et de morale. Léon remained editor of the journal until his death in 1935,William G. Holzberger, ed., The Letters of George Santayana, Volume 3, p.170 n.1 when he was succeeded by Dominique Parodi. In 1900 he founded the International Congress of Philosophy,André Lalande, 'Principal Publications on the Philosophy of the Sciences brought out in France since 1900', in Marvin Farber, ed., Philosophic thought in France and the United States, 1968, p.175 and in 1901 the Société Française de Philosophie.Paul Edwards, ed., The encyclopedia of philosophy, vol. 6, 1967, p.204 He wrote extensively on Johann Gottlieb Fichte. He is buried in the Jewish section of Père-Lachaise Cemetery.Gilles Plaut, Cimetière du Père-Lachaise: Division israélite, 1999, p.38