Ferdinand 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. Wikipedia
Born: November 26, 1857, Geneva, Switzerland
Died: February 22, 1913 (age 55 years), Vufflens-le-Château, Switzerland
Influenced: Noam Chomsky, Roland Barthes, Roman Jakobson, and more
Children: Jacques de Saussure and Raymond de Saussure
Parents: Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure and Louise de Pourtalès
Siblings: René de Saussure