Victor Segalen
French poet
Died when: 41 years 127 days (496 months)Star 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 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.
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