Victor Segalen
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Victor Segalen (January 14, 1878 - May 21, 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).
He gave his name to the Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University of literature and social sciences in Bordeaux.
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Works include
- A dreuz an Arvor (1899)
- L'observation médicale chez les écrivains naturalistes (Thesis, Bordeaux, 1901)
- Les Immémoriaux (under the pseudonym Max Anély) (1907)
- Stèles (prose poems, 1912)
- Peintures (1916)
Posthumous publications:
- Orphée-Roi (1921)
- René Leys (1922)
- Mission archéologique en Chine (in collaboration with Gilbert de Voisins and Jean Lartigue) (1923-1924)
- Équipée. De Pékin aux marches thibétaines (1929)
- Voyage au pays du réel (1929)
- Lettres de Chine (1967)
- La Grande Statuaire chinoise (1972)
- Journal des îles (1978)
- Le Fils du ciel : chronique des jours souverains (1985)
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