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Louis Havet
French latinist and hellenist (1849–1925)
Pierre Antoine Louis Havet (French: [avɛ]; 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.
