This Day in the History of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
July
25,
1797
Nicholas Marcellus Hentz was born in Versailles, France. A professor of modern languages at the University from 1824 to 1830, he was a pioneering expert on American entomology, especially North American spiders.Top |
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