A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists/Havet, Professor Ernest Auguste Eugène
Havet, Professor Ernest Auguste Eugène, French writer. B. Apr. 11, 1813. Ed. École Normale. He was appointed professor of Greek literature at the École Normale in 1840, and of Latin eloquence at the College de France in 1855. When Renan's Vie de Jésus appeared in 1863, Havet boldly supported it by an article in the Revue des Deux Mondes. He then entered upon a prolonged and valuable study of Christian origins, which is finally summed in his Le Christianisme et ses origines (3 vols., 1872–84). He was a member of the Legion of Honour and of the Academy of Political and Social Science. D. Dec. 21, 1889.