WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Segalen has received more than 81,572 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Victor Segalen is the 3,296th most popular writer (down from 3,010th in 2019), the 3,411th most popular biography from France (down from 3,098th in 2019) and the 429th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 82k

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  • 52.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.65

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

René Leys
History, Fiction
1922
Les immémoriaux
1977
Les Immémoriaux
Social life and customs, Fiction, Tahiti
1966
Stèles
1912
Essai sur l'exotisme
Aesthetics, Difference (Philosophy), Exoticism in art
1978
Chine
Chinese Sculpture, Statues, Accessible book
1972

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Victor Segalen ranks 3,296 out of 7,302. Before him are Idries Shah, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Ashapurna Devi, Konstantin Mihailović, Roberto Arlt, and Émile Faguet. After him are Lucius Varius Rufus, Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov, Charles Pinot Duclos, Mikhail Kuzmin, Mikayel Nalbandian, and Jean Rotrou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Victor Segalen ranks 124. Before him are Selim Palmgren, Paul Renner, André Caplet, Inigo Campioni, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, and Lina Stern. After him are Julie Manet, Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Alexander Svechin, Massimo Bontempelli, Chen Jiongming, and Pierre Fatou. Among people deceased in 1919, Victor Segalen ranks 98. Before him are Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Eugen Leviné, Hedwig Dohm, Richard Bergh, Edward Poynter, and Ernest von Koerber. After him are Maryana Marrash, Saovabha Phongsri, Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen, John Alcock, Akashi Motojiro, and Laurence Doherty.

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In France

Among people born in France, Victor Segalen ranks 3,411 out of 6,770. Before him are Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877), Bruno Nuytten (1945), André Marie Constant Duméril (1774), Bernard Maris (1946), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), and Émile Faguet (1847). After him are Bafétimbi Gomis (1985), Charles Pinot Duclos (1704), Zino Francescatti (1902), Joseph Vendryes (1875), François Buzot (1760), and Julie Manet (1878).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Victor Segalen ranks 429. Before him are Jacques Delille (1738), William of Jumièges (1000), Maurice de Guérin (1810), Eugène Burnouf (1801), Bernard Maris (1946), and Émile Faguet (1847). After him are Charles Pinot Duclos (1704), Jean Rotrou (1609), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948), Isaac de Benserade (1613), Henry Becque (1837), and Jean-Claude Izzo (1945).

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