Christian professor of Hebrew; member of the Acad�mie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres; born at Beaucourt, Haut-Rhin, September, 1846; brother of Samuel Berg�r. Graduating at the University of Strasburg, he settled in Paris, where he became professor of Hebrew in the Facult� de Th�ologie Protestante (now a part of the University of Paris), and sublibrarian of the Institut de France.
Disciple and intimate friend of Renan, whom he succeeded in the chair of Hebrew at the Coll�ge de France, Berg�r devoted himself to the study of Semitic epigraphy, for which his friend and master had a predilection. He collaborated in the redaction of the "Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum," published by the Acad�mie.
Among Berg�r's numerous writings two are of special interest for Jewish scholars: (1) "L'Ecriture des Inscriptions S�mitiques," Paris, 1880; and (2) "Essai sur la Signification Historique des Noms des Patriarches H�breux," Paris, 1887.