Victor Segalen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Victor Segalen

French poet

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1878

Place of Birth: Brest, Brittany, France

Date of Death: 21-May-1919

Profession: writer, physician, poet, physician writer, travel writer, archaeologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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 naval medicine 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, France ("under mysterious circumstances") and reputedly with an open copy of Hamlet by his side.