page_title: Hugo Bergmann
section_title: Academic career
hierarchical_section_title: Hugo Bergmann / Academic career
caption_attribution_description: English: Hugo Bergman receives an Honorary Doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem עברית: Hugo Bergman receives an Honorary Doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
context_page_description: Hugo Bergmann was an Israeli philosopher.
context_section_description: He became a Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and later on the dean of the university. He was friends with Franz Kafka, who was a schoolmate of his, the philosopher Felix Weltsch, who later worked at the Hebrew University Library in Jerusalem, and Max Brod, who he introduced to Zionism before 1910.
  He wrote on the nature of quantum mechanics and causality where he interpreted spontaneity in nature with the psychological idea that the closer we come to elements in nature or components in the individual, the less tenable is strict causal determinism and the more freedom we must grant to decisive personal elements: "In corresponding areas of physics, the statistical law of averages takes on the same functions in determining temporal position and in prediction and reconstruction that the strict law of causality previously covered, but with the distinction that the individual case could be temporally located and predicted or reconstructed before, whereas now we deal only with the average." (1929)
  He translated several of Rudolf Steiner's books about Threefold Social Order into Hebrew.
caption: Hugo Bergmann, 1959
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