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Pierre Antoine Louis Havet (French: [avɛ]; 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.
Louis Havet | |
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| Born | 6 January 1849 |
| Died | 26 January 1925 (aged 76) Paris, French Third Republic |
| Known for | Thurneysen–Havet's law |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | linguistics, classical languages |
| Institutions | Collège de France |
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
edit- 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
References
edit- Langlois, Charles-Victor. 1925. “Éloge funèbre de M. Louis Havet, membre de l'Académie.” Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 69 (1): 17–22.
- Holleaux, Maurice. 1939. “Notice sur la vie et les travaux de M. Louis Havet, membre de l'Académie.” Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres 83 (5): 527–546.
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