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.
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