Louis Havet

Pierre Antoine Louis Havet (6 January 1849, Paris – 26 January 1925, Paris) 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 ("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