Hippolyte Havel

Hippolyte Havel ( born August 13, 1871 in Tabor, Czech Republic, † 1950 in New Jersey) was a Czech anarchist and close friend of Emma Goldman.

Hippolyte Havel lived in Greenwich Village, a suburb of New York, where he opened a restaurant shortly before the First World War, which was a meeting place for artists and intellectuals.

In 1900 he accompanied Goldman to Paris to prepare for taking place in September, international anti-parliamentary conference. He wrote, among other things, for Mother Earth and was editor of The Revolutionary Almanac ( 1914) and the journal Revolt (1916).

Havel was married to Polly Holliday and adopted in 1918 Berenice Abbott. He wrote biographies of Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman, as well as an introductory essay for Goldman's Anarchism and Other Essays collection.