Nicholas Marcellus Hentz

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Nicholas Marcellus Hentz
Versailles, France
Died4 November 1856
Marianna, Florida
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Painter, Educator, and Arachnologist
Known forAmerica's first arachnologist
Notable work"The Spiders of the United States
SpouseCaroline Lee Whiting (married 30 September 1824)

Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (July 25, 1797 – November 4, 1856) was a

arachnologist
.

Biography

Hentz was born in

Tuskegee, Alabama, 1845–1848; and Columbia, Alabama, 1848–1849. After 1851, Hentz and his wife lived with his son in Marianna, Florida
, where he eventually died from an illness in 1856.

Family

He married

Allopath).[6]

Religious concerns

ejaculatory prayer". The professor also had a severe nervous disorder. Many of his students thought the study of French went against their religious principles. Consequently, Hentz was suspected of French revolutionary liberalism. Professor Hentz resigned from the university in 1833 after finding new academic regulations too restrictive. After Hentz left the university, French was completely dropped from the curriculum.[7]

Arachnids

Hentz became a pioneering

Yellow sac spider, the Southern house spider, a common tarantula, and a genus of jumping spider.[8]

Water color of a Fresh water fish by Hentz
Exemplar of spider drawings

Hentz made his first publication on alligators in 1820 which was followed by French textbooks issued between 1822 and 1839. In 1825, he published a novel about the Indian massacre of 1778. This novel is called "Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape, an Historical Tale".[7] Finally, his major collection in arachnology was republished in 1875. This collection is entitled "The Spiders of the United States: A Collection of the Arachnological Writings of Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, M.D."

Citations

  1. ^ a b "Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape". www.ansp.org. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  2. ^ "Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz". momo348.tripod.com. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  3. ISBN 9780674627345
    .
  4. ^ Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s–Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Ancestry.com. Alabama, Marriage Collection, 1800–1969. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. (subscription required)
  5. ^ Bertram Holland Flanders, Early Georgia Magazines: Literary Periodicals To 1865, University of Georgia Press, 2010, p. 140.
  6. ^ Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804–1929 [database on-line]. Charles married twice and had ten children. Ancestry.com. Florida Marriage Indexes, 1822–1875 and 1927–2001, [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. (subscription required)
  7. ^ a b "Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus". ncpedia.org. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  8. ^ Cooke, J. (1996). A pioneering spider man. Natural History, 105(7), 74.

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