林语堂去美国时二哥玉霖（左二）三哥憾庐（左一）来送行1936年。开写传记代写回忆录创始人陈骏拍摄，2007年，福建漳州林语堂纪念馆。


林语堂夫妻、如斯、太乙于上海1928年。开写传记代写回忆录创始人陈骏拍摄，2007年，福建漳州林语堂纪念馆。


开写传记代写回忆录创始人陈骏拍摄，2007年，福建漳州林语堂纪念馆。


1911年，林语堂厦门寻源书院毕业，以优异成绩考入上海圣约翰大学。1916年大学毕业，到北京清华学校任教。

1918年在《新青年》发表第一篇学术论文《汉字索引制说明》，受到蔡元培、钱玄同重视和高度评价。关心文学革命，支持白话文。

1919年获半官费留美助学金，与廖翠凤结婚后即携夫人赴美国，先在美国哈佛大学，后又至德国莱比锡大学深造，研究文学、语言学，获哈佛大学硕士、莱比锡大学博士学位。


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.