Victor Segalen 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 and China . He died by accident in a forest in Huelgoat, France . He gave his name to the Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2 University of medicine, literature and social sciences in Bordeaux under the Academy of Bordeaux.
| Birthdate: | January 14, 1878 |
| Birthplace: | Brest |
| Date of death: | May 21, 1919 |