Harro von Senger was originally a law student at the University of Zurich. Finding law too dry he decided to try something new in a totally different culture, which turned out to be Chinese.
勝雅律原是蘇黎世大學的法學生，學法律難免枯燥，他於是決定選擇一樣「與歐洲文化完全不同」的學門嘗個新，於是選上了中文。