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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Segalen has received more than 77,278 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Victor Segalen is the 3,021st most popular writer (down from 2,890th in 2019), the 3,110th most popular biography from France (down from 2,896th in 2019) and the 388th most popular French Writer.

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  • 77k

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  • 51.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Victor Segalen ranks 3,021 out of 5,755. Before him are Sohrab Sepehri, Juan Pablo Bonet, Howard Pyle, María Kodama, James Rollins, and Fanny Crosby. After him are Rahman Baba, Josef Jungmann, Gu Yanwu, Marie-Claire Blais, Robert M. Pirsig, and Boris Pilnyak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Victor Segalen ranks 112. Before him are Stamen Grigorov, Glenn Curtiss, Maria Ilyinichna Ulyanova, Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, Pierre Fatou, and Lina Stern. After him are Konrad Mägi, Takeo Arishima, Agner Krarup Erlang, Ernst Alexanderson, Karl Buresch, and Paul Renner. Among people deceased in 1919, Victor Segalen ranks 85. Before him are Adolf Schmal, Vera Kholodnaya, Alexander Izvolsky, Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, Ernest von Koerber, and Richard Bergh. After him are Melchora Aquino, Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Akashi Motojiro, Laurence Doherty, Vasily Rozanov, and Francisco Moreno.

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In France

Among people born in France, Victor Segalen ranks 3,110 out of 6,011. Before him are François de La Rocque (1885), Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798), Princess Marguerite of Orléans (1846), Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646), Wolfgang Capito (1478), and Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805). After him are Élie, duc Decazes (1780), Simon Marmion (1425), Marcel Prévost (1862), Juliette Adam (1836), Marie I, Countess of Boulogne (1136), and Roberto Alagna (1963).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Victor Segalen ranks 388. Before him are Daniel Guérin (1904), Vincent Voiture (1597), Charles Blanc (1813), Eugène Burnouf (1801), Pascal Quignard (1948), and Judith Gautier (1845). After him are Marcel Prévost (1862), Juliette Adam (1836), Catherine Breillat (1948), Charles-Louis Havas (1783), Michel Ocelot (1943), and Jean-François Revel (1924).

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