Louis Havet
Pierre Antoine Louis Havet 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 in 1885-1925 he was chairman of the department of Latin philology. Since 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 Ligue des droits de l'homme, which defended Alfred Dreyfus in the Dreyfus affair.Major works
- Manuel de critique verbale appliquée aux textes latins
- Cours élémentaire de métrique grecque et latine
- La Prose métrique de Symmaque et les origines métriques du Cursus
- Amphitruo ed. L. Havet
- Manuel de critique verbale appliquée aux textes latins
- Notes critiques sur le texte de Festus
- Notes critiques sur l'Orator et sur Isée
