Victor Segalen
1878
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1919
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: France
native language: French
languages spoken, written or signed: French
educated at: University of Rennes, Brest School of Naval Medicine
occupation: physician, poet, archaeologist, travel writer, writer, photographer
award received: mort pour la France, Knight of the Legion of Honour
student of: Édouard Chavannes
Victor Segalen (14 January 1878 – 21 May 1919) was a French naval doctor, ethnographer, archeologist, writer, poet, explorer, art-theorist, linguist and literary critic. He was born in Brest. He studied medicine and graduated at the Navy School of medicine ('Santé Navale') in Bordeaux. He traveled and lived in Polynesia (1903–1905) and China (1909–1914 and 1917). He died by accident in a forest in Huelgoat, Northern Brittany, France ("under mysterious circumstances") and reputedly with an open copy of Hamlet by his side. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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