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 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 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''