George Remington Havens

George Remington Havens (25 August 1890, Shelter Island Heights, New York – 28 September 1977, Columbus, Ohio) was an American professor of French. His publications on French literature focussed on Voltaire and Rousseau.

Biography Havens graduated from Amherst College in 1913. In 1917 he received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University with thesis The Abbé Prévost and English literature He married Edith Louise Curtiss (known as "Louise") on 18 July 1917 in Los Angeles. From 1917 to 1919 he served as a naval officer in the United States Fleet Reserve and attained the rank of second lieutenant. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1929–1930. He received honorary doctorates from Ohio State University and University of Michigan. 1965 as editor with Norman L. Torrey: Voltaire's catalogue of his library at Ferney, Geneva 1959 Frederick J. Waugh. American marine painter, Orono, Maine 1969 (See Frederick Judd Waugh.) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Boston 1978