Louis Havet

Louis Havet , born the January 6th 1849 and dead the January 26th 1925, is a French Latinist, specialist in Greek and Latin poetry.

Biography

Wire of Ernest Havet, he teaches with the Sorbonne in the Années 1880, with among his pupils Antoine Meillet. He is named professor with the Collège de France, where he is titular pulpit of Latin philology of 1885 with 1925. Member of the Central committee of the League of the human rights, it engages politically at the time of the Affaire Dreyfus. In 1893, it is elected member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities and, in 1917, it is one of the first vice-presidents of the Association Guillaume Budé.

Principal publications

Manual of verbal criticism applied to the Latin texts (1867)
Course elementary of metric Greek and Latin (1886)
the metric Prose of Symmaque and metric origins of the Course (1892) Text in line
Amphitruo published by L. Havet (1895) Manual Text in line
of verbal criticism applied to the Latin texts (1911)
critical Notes to the text of Festus (1914) Text in line
critical Notes to Orator and Isée (1927) Text in line

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