林語堂去美國時二哥玉霖（左二）三哥憾廬（左一）來送行1936年。開寫傳記代寫回憶錄創(chuàng)始人陳駿拍攝，2007年，福建漳州林語堂紀念館。


林語堂夫妻、如斯、太乙于上海1928年。開寫傳記代寫回憶錄創(chuàng)始人陳駿拍攝，2007年，福建漳州林語堂紀念館。


開寫傳記代寫回憶錄創(chuàng)始人陳駿拍攝，2007年，福建漳州林語堂紀念館。


1911年，林語堂廈門尋源書院畢業(yè)，以優(yōu)異成績考入上海圣約翰大學。1916年大學畢業(yè)，到北京清華學校任教。

1918年在《新青年》發(fā)表第一篇學術(shù)論文《漢字索引制說明》，受到蔡元培、錢玄同重視和高度評價。關(guān)心文學革命，支持白話文。

1919年獲半官費留美助學金，與廖翠鳳結(jié)婚后即攜夫人赴美國，先在美國哈佛大學，后又至德國萊比錫大學深造，研究文學、語言學，獲哈佛大學碩士、萊比錫大學博士學位。


In 1911, Lin Yutang graduated from Xiamen Xunyuan Academy and was admittedwith excellent scores into Saint John's University in Shanghai. In 1916,aftergraduation, he went to Peking to become a teacher at Tsinghua School.In 1918, he published his first academic paper “An Explanation on IndexingChinese Characters" in the magazine New Youth. It was considered very significantand highly praised by Cai Yuanpei and Qian Xuantong. He attached importance to thereform in literature and advocated the colloquialization of Chinese.
In 1919, he was granted with a half scholarship by the government and went to theUS for further study together with his wife Liao Cuifeng after their wedding. Hestudied literature and linguistics first at Harvard University, and later at the Universityof Leipzig in Germany, He obtained a Master degree from Harvard University and adoctoral degree at the University of Leipzig.