![]() He went to study at the University of Leipzig, Germany, which was the center of historical and comparative linguistics at the time, and wrote a long master's thesis that brought about a change in historical linguistics. ![]() Indeed, his precocious genius is confirmed even in comparative treatises on Indo-European languages he wrote when he was 14 years old. Ferdinand de Saussure grew up under the influence of the long-standing family customs and traditions that produced natural scientists, and inherited artistic sensibility from his mother, who was deeply versed in music. Ferdinand de Saussure was the eldest of nine sons and three daughters of Henri de Saussure (1829–1905), a biologist and explorer, and Louise de Pourtalès (1837–1906), daughter of a renowned county family. ![]() The De Saussure family was famous as the most famous and oldest family in Geneva as well as Switzerland. ![]()
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