deaths
February 22, 1913
Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and author (born 1857)
Ferdinand de Saussure
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.