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George Remington Havens
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'''George Remington Havens''' (25 August 1890, [[Shelter Island Heights, New York]] – 28 September 1977, [[Columbus, Ohio]]) was an American professor of French. His publications on French literature focussed on Voltaire and Rousseau.<ref name=Spurlin></ref><ref name=Marginalia></ref>
==Biography==
Havens graduated from [[Amherst College]] in 1913. In 1917 he received his Ph.D. from [[Johns Hopkins University]] with thesis ''The Abbé Prévost and English literature''<ref name=Spurlin/> (published in 1921).<ref></ref> He married Edith Louise Curtiss (1886–1977, known as "Louise")<ref></ref> on 18 July 1917 in Los Angeles. From 1917 to 1919<ref></ref> he served as a naval officer in the United States Fleet Reserve and attained the rank of second lieutenant.<ref name=Spurlin/>
Havens was a professor of French at [[Ohio State University]] from 1919 to 1961, when he retired as professor emeritus. During various summers, he taught at a number of universities, including the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.<ref name=Spurlin/>
Havens made two trips to [[Leningrad]], one in 1927 and the other in 1930, to study Voltaire's books housed in the [[National Library of Russia]].<ref name=Marginalia/><ref></ref><ref name="HavensTorrey1929"></ref> He was a [[Guggenheim Fellow]] for the academic year 1929–1930. He received honorary doctorates from Ohio State University and [[University of Michigan]].<ref name=Spurlin/>
Havens called his wife "his first and best of readers". She survived him by about three months.<ref name=Spurlin/>
==Selected pubications==
*as editor: ''Selections from Voltaire with explanatory comment upon his life and works'', New York/London 1925, 1930; New York 1969
*''Voltaire's Marginalia on the pages of Rousseau. A comparative study of ideas'', Columbus 1933, [https://ift.tt/2WrcVzJ reprint, New York 1966], 1971
*as editor: Voltaire, ''Candide, ou, L'optimisme'', New York 1934, 1969
*as editor: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ''Discours sur les sciences et les arts'', New York 1946
*as editor with Donald F. Bond: [https://ift.tt/2QsZWd9 ''The eighteenth century''], Syracuse, New York 1951 (series ''A critical bibliography of French literature'' with general editor David Clark Cabeen, vol. 4)
** as author: [https://ift.tt/38VUki0 ''Chapter VII. Voltaire''] pp. 182–207
*''The age of ideas. From reaction to revolution in eighteenth-century France'', New York 1955,<ref name="Crocker1957"></ref> 1965
*as editor wtih Norman L. Torrey: ''Voltaire's catalogue of his library at Ferney'', Geneva 1959
*''Frederick J. Waugh. American marine painter'', Orono, Maine 1969 (See [[Frederick Judd Waugh]].)
*''Jean-Jacques Rousseau'', Boston 1978
==References==
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[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1977 deaths]]
[[Category:American humanities academics]]
[[Category:Romance philologists]]
[[Category:Amherst College alumni]]
[[Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni]]
[[Category:Ohio State University faculty]]
[[Category:Guggenheim Fellows]]
==Biography==
Havens graduated from [[Amherst College]] in 1913. In 1917 he received his Ph.D. from [[Johns Hopkins University]] with thesis ''The Abbé Prévost and English literature''<ref name=Spurlin/> (published in 1921).<ref></ref> He married Edith Louise Curtiss (1886–1977, known as "Louise")<ref></ref> on 18 July 1917 in Los Angeles. From 1917 to 1919<ref></ref> he served as a naval officer in the United States Fleet Reserve and attained the rank of second lieutenant.<ref name=Spurlin/>
Havens was a professor of French at [[Ohio State University]] from 1919 to 1961, when he retired as professor emeritus. During various summers, he taught at a number of universities, including the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University.<ref name=Spurlin/>
Havens made two trips to [[Leningrad]], one in 1927 and the other in 1930, to study Voltaire's books housed in the [[National Library of Russia]].<ref name=Marginalia/><ref></ref><ref name="HavensTorrey1929"></ref> He was a [[Guggenheim Fellow]] for the academic year 1929–1930. He received honorary doctorates from Ohio State University and [[University of Michigan]].<ref name=Spurlin/>
Havens called his wife "his first and best of readers". She survived him by about three months.<ref name=Spurlin/>
==Selected pubications==
*as editor: ''Selections from Voltaire with explanatory comment upon his life and works'', New York/London 1925, 1930; New York 1969
*''Voltaire's Marginalia on the pages of Rousseau. A comparative study of ideas'', Columbus 1933, [https://ift.tt/2WrcVzJ reprint, New York 1966], 1971
*as editor: Voltaire, ''Candide, ou, L'optimisme'', New York 1934, 1969
*as editor: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ''Discours sur les sciences et les arts'', New York 1946
*as editor with Donald F. Bond: [https://ift.tt/2QsZWd9 ''The eighteenth century''], Syracuse, New York 1951 (series ''A critical bibliography of French literature'' with general editor David Clark Cabeen, vol. 4)
** as author: [https://ift.tt/38VUki0 ''Chapter VII. Voltaire''] pp. 182–207
*''The age of ideas. From reaction to revolution in eighteenth-century France'', New York 1955,<ref name="Crocker1957"></ref> 1965
*as editor wtih Norman L. Torrey: ''Voltaire's catalogue of his library at Ferney'', Geneva 1959
*''Frederick J. Waugh. American marine painter'', Orono, Maine 1969 (See [[Frederick Judd Waugh]].)
*''Jean-Jacques Rousseau'', Boston 1978
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1977 deaths]]
[[Category:American humanities academics]]
[[Category:Romance philologists]]
[[Category:Amherst College alumni]]
[[Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni]]
[[Category:Ohio State University faculty]]
[[Category:Guggenheim Fellows]]
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