George Remington Havens

George Remington Havens (born August 25, 1890 in Shelter Island Heights , Shelter Island , † September 1977 in Columbus , Ohio ) was an American Romance scholar and literary scholar .

life and work

Havens graduated from Amherst College in 1913. He received his doctorate in 1917 from Johns Hopkins University with the work The Abbé Prévost and English literature (Baltimore [part] / Princeton / Paris 1921, New York 1965). From 1919 to 1961 he taught French at Ohio State University in Columbus (Ohio) .

Havens enjoyed a Guggenheim grant in 1929 . He was an honorary doctor of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor .

Other works

• (Ed.) 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, New York 1966, 1971
• (Eds.) Voltaire, Candide, ou, L'optimisme , New York 1934, 1969
• (Ed.) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discours sur les sciences et les arts , New York 1946
• (with Donald F. Bond) The eighteenth century , Syracuse, New York 1951 ( A critical bibliography of French literature , edited by David Clark Cabeen, Richard A. Brooks and Jules Brody, Vol. 4)
• The age of ideas. From reaction to revolution in eighteenth-century France , New York 1955, 1965
• (Ed. With Norman L. Torrey) Voltaire's catalog of his library at Ferney , Geneva 1959
• Frederick J. Waugh . American marine painter , Orono 1969
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Boston 1978

literature

• Literature and history in the age of ideas. Essays on the French Enlightenment presented to George R. Havens , ed. by Charles Garfield Singer Williams , Columbus 1975
• Paul Merrill Spurlin , [Obituary] in: Eighteenth-Century Studies 12, 1978-1979, pp. 277-279

Web links

• Literature by and about George Remington Havens in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)