About Louis Havet
Lived 1849 – 1925 (aged 76). Louis Havet was a French hellenist, latinist, classical philologist and professor.
Pierre Antoine Louis Havet (; 6 January 1849 – 26 January 1925) was a French Latinist and Hellenist, an expert on classical Greek and Latin poetry. He was the son of Ernest Havet.
He was professor at Collège de France, where between 1885 and 1925 he was chairman of the department of Latin philology. Beginning in 1893, he was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. In 1917, he became the first vice-president of the Association Guillaume Budé.
He was a member of the central committee of the Human Rights League, which defended Alfred Dreyfus in the Dreyfus affair.
Major works Manuel de critique verbale appliquée aux textes latins (1867) Cours élémentaire de métrique grecque et latine (1886) La Prose métrique de Symmaque et les origines métriques du Cursus (1892) Text online Amphitruo (Amphitryon, by Plautus) ed. L. Havet (1895) Text online Manuel de critique verbale appliquée aux textes latins (1911) Notes critiques sur le texte de Festus (1914) Text online Notes critiques sur l'Orator et sur Isée (1927) Text online
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French latinist and hellenist (1849–1925)
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Louis Havet was born on 6 January 1849 in former 11th arrondissement of Paris.
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Louis Havet died on 26 January 1925 in 4th arrondissement of Paris.
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