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Nicholas Marcellus Hentz held the university's chair of modern languages at Chapel Hill from about 1827 to 1831, studying spiders in the surrounding woods and publishing on them. He left for Kentucky in 1831, and French was then dropped from the curriculum.
Source: NCpedia: Hentz, Nicholas Marcellus
1797–1856 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Kron family letters of Stanly County, 1827 to 1901: Dr. Francis Joseph Kron's correspondence with Francis L. Hawks, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz and Governor Thomas Bragg, and later letters from Adelaide and Elizabeth Kron written after his death. Among them is his letter declining an appointment as a trustee, and the University of North Carolina figures in the correspondence. Part of North Carolina Memory.
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Picture: Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, portrait published 1875. Public domain. Photograph by Henry McCook, Nicholas Marcellus Hentz; The Spiders of the United States: A Collection of the Arachnological Writings of Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, M.D. (1875), frontispiece. archive.org; via Wikimedia Commons
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