EUGENE AUGUSTE ERNEST

See also:

• EUGENE AUGUSTE ERNEST HAVET (1813-1889)
• HAVET, JULIEN (PIERRE EUGLNE) (1853-1893)

HAVET (1813-1889)  , French scholar, was born in Paris on the nth of April 1813 . Educated at the Lycee Saint-Louis and the Ecole Normale, he was for many years before his death on the 21st of December 1889 professor of Latin eloquence at the College de France . His two capit al works were a commentary on the works of Pascal, Pensees de Pascal publiees dans leer texte authentique avec un commentaire suivi (1852; 2nd ed . 2 vols., 1881), and Le Christianisme et ses origines (4 vols., 1871-1884), the chief thesis of which was that Christianity owed more to Greek philosophy than to the writings of the Hebrew prophets . His elder son, Pierre Antoine Louis Havet (b . 1849), was professor of Latin philology at the College de France and a member of the Institute . The younger, Julien, is separately noticed .