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Victor Segalen

1878 - 1919

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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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Segalen is the 2,951st most popular writer (up from 3,296th in 2019), the 3,122nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,412th in 2019) and the 396th most popular French Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Victor Segalen ranks 2,951 out of 7,302. Before him are Dmitry Pisarev, Champfleury, Knud Knudsen, Günter Eich, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester. After him are Willa Cather, Miklós Radnóti, Casimir Delavigne, Lola Anglada, Lupus Servatus, and Aristeas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Victor Segalen ranks 120. Before him are Lillian Moller Gilbreth, Pat McDonald, Heinrich XXIV, Prince Reuss of Greiz, Massimo Bontempelli, André Caplet, and Konstantinos Paspatis. After him are Zabel Yesayan, Anna Demidova, Demetrios Petrokokkinos, J. F. C. Fuller, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, and Clara Westhoff. Among people deceased in 1919, Victor Segalen ranks 90. Before him are Szymon Winawer, Vera Kholodnaya, José Gregorio Hernández, Francisco Moreno, Maryana Marrash, and Max Heindel. After him are Julia Lermontova, Vasily Rozanov, Aaron Aaronsohn, Edward Poynter, Richard Bergh, and Akashi Motojiro.

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In France

Among people born in France, Victor Segalen ranks 3,122 out of 6,770. Before him are Napoléon Henri Reber (1807), Champfleury (1821), Yves Robert (1920), Eugène Emmanuel Amaury Duval (1808), Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval (1715), and François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie (1671). After him are Robert Casadesus (1899), Prosper Guéranger (1805), Casimir Delavigne (1793), Jean Patou (1887), Lupus Servatus (805), and Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Victor Segalen ranks 396. Before him are Bernard Werber (1961), Robert Garnier (1534), Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), Louise Weiss (1893), Marie Marvingt (1875), and Champfleury (1821). After him are Casimir Delavigne (1793), Lupus Servatus (805), Fernand Crommelynck (1886), Marcel Boulenger (1873), Pierre Bec (1921), and Pierre Souvestre (1874).

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