Louis Havet

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Louis Havet
Born	(1849-01-06)6 January 1849 Paris, French Second Republic
Died	26 January 1925(1925-01-26) (aged 76) Paris, French Third Republic
Known for	Thurneysen–Havet's law
Scientific career
Fields	linguistics, classical languages
Institutions	Collège de France

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.

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.