Havelock, Eric Alfred

Eric Alfred Havelock was born in London, England, in June 1903. He received his B.A. (1926) and his M.A. (1929) from Cambridge University. Havelock was an assistant and then associate professor of Classics at Acadia University in Nova Scotia (1926-1929) and an associate professor of Classics at Victoria College, Toronto (1929-1947). He was an associate and then full professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University (1947-1963). Havelock was Sterling Professor of Classics at Yale University (1963-1971) and chairman of the Yale Classics Department (1963-1969). Upon his retirement in 1971, he was the Raymond Distinguished Professor of Classics at the State University of New York at Buffalo until 1973. Eric Havelock died in Poughkeepsie, New York, on April 4, 1988.