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Ferdinand de Saussure
AuthorBooks · Second hand1857-1913
Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders of semiotics, or semiology, as Saussure called it.
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About Ferdinand de Saussure
Birth
1857
Death
1913
First book
1916
Years writing
110
Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure was a Swiss linguist, semiotician and philosopher. His ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in both linguistics and semiotics in the 20th century. He is widely considered one of the founders of 20th-century linguistics and one of two major founders of semiotics, or semiology, as Saussure called it.
Ferdinand de Saussure is considered the father of modern linguistics due to his revolutionary theories.
Born in Geneva in 1857, he dedicated his life to the deep study of languages and their structure.
His most influential work, the Course in General Linguistics, was published posthumously by his students.
He laid the foundations for structuralism and semiology, transforming how we understand language.
Beyond linguistics, he excelled as a pedagogue and philosopher, leaving an academic legacy of over seventy works.
