Nicholas Marcellus Hentz

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Title page of The Spiders of the United States: A Collection of the Arachnological Writings of Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, M.D. (1875)

Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (July 25, 1797 – November 4, 1856) was a French American educator and arachnologist.

Biography

Hentz was born in Versailles, France. He studied medicine and learned the art of miniature painting in Paris. He immigrated to the United States in 1816, and taught French and miniature painting in Boston, Philadelphia, and other places. In 1824/5 he was associated with George Bancroft in the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachusetts. From 1826 to 1830, he was professor of modern languages and belles lettres in the University of North Carolina.

He married Caroline Lee Whiting in 1824, and moved with his wife to Covington, Kentucky, in 1831. In the following year they took charge of a female seminary near Cincinnati. They afterward conducted various schools in Alabama and Georgia. In 1851, they moved to Marianna, Florida, on account of the illness of Hentz. He died there.

Spiders

He became a pioneering zoologist in the field of arachnology. He first described 124 spider species, and, as is custom in binomial naming, species are noted with the name and year of the person who first classified them. A few spiders of note Hentz classified are the Yellow sac spider and the Southern house spider.

Notes

References

Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1892). "Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton

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Name	Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus
Alternative names
Short description	United States educator and entomologist
Date of birth	July 25, 1797
Place of birth	Versailles, France
Date of death	November 4, 1856
Place of death	Marianna, Florida

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