George Remington Havens

George Remington Havens (25 August 1890, Shelter Island Heights, New York – 28 September 1977, Columbus, Ohio) was an American professor of French.

In 1917 he received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University with thesis The Abbé Prévost and English literature[1] (published in 1921).

From 1917 to 1919[4] he served as a naval officer in the United States Fleet Reserve and attained the rank of second lieutenant.

[1] He enjoyed a national and international reputation in the field of eighteenth-century French studies.

[1]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.