However, it was not until 1906 that Saussure began teaching the course of "General Linguistics" that would consume the greater part of his attention until his death in 1913.Ĭontributions to linguistics Laryngeal theory Saussure continued to lecture at the university for the remainder of his life. Living in Geneva, teaching Sanskrit and historical linguistics, he married there and had two sons. Soon afterwards he relocated to Paris, where he would lecture on ancient and modern languages for eleven years before returning to Geneva in 1891. He returned to Leipzig and was awarded his doctorate in 1880. Two years later at the age of 21, Saussure studied for a year in Berlin, where he wrote his only full-length work titled Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européenes.
He was there a year, and then convinced his parents to allow him to go to Leipzig in 1876 to study linguistics. Coming from a family of scientists, he began his education at the University of Geneva studying the natural sciences. By age 15, he had learned Greek, French, German, English, and Latin, and at that age he also wrote an essay on languages. Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1857, Ferdinand de Saussure was interested in languages early in his life.
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