Léopold de Saussure [SEP] place of birth
, a Swiss Esperantist and mathematician.
Career.
Léopold de Saussure was born in Switzerland, just outside Geneva, in the hamlet, Creux de Genthod. His family were Protestants with roots in Lorraine, France who had come to Geneva after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1588. His father, Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure, was a mineralogist, entomologist, and taxonomist and a constant traveler and explorer who wrote treatises on the insects of Africa and had an encyclopedic range of interests. 
From his early
taxonomist), and father of Ferdinand, Léopold and René.
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913), Swiss linguist, brother of Léopold and René
- Léopold de Saussure (1866–1925), sinologist, astronomer, French Naval Officer, brother of Ferdinand and René
- Hermine de Saussure (1901–1984), female sailing pioneer and scholar, specialist of Jean-Jacques Rousseau daughter of Léopold and mother of Delphine Seyrig
- René de Saussure (1868–1943), Swiss Esperantist and scientist, brother of Ferdinand and Léopold