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HENTY. 784 Incas (1002); With the British Legion (1902) ; With Eitcheiwr in the Soudan (1902). HENTZ, Nicolas (1750-1820). A French politician, born at Sierck, where he became justice. Elected to the Convention In 1792, he voted for the death of the King, and became a trusted agent of the Revolution. In 1794, when he returned to Paris from a long series of im- portant missions, in which he had had unlimited powers, lie was accused of cruelty in La Vendee, and was found guilty; but, benefiting by the amnesty of October, he left public life. The law against the regicides passed in 1816 forced him to leave the country. He escaped to the United States, and died on an island in Lake Erie. HENZE, iiN'za', GuST.w (1815—). A French agriculturist, born in Paris. He was educated at the Agricultural Institute of Grignon, and was appointed director of the Grand-Jouan Institute in 1840. Six years afterwards he was adminis- trator of the school at Nozay, then professor of agriculture at Grignon, and was appointed to the same chair at the opening of the Institute in Paris, and in 1880 was made also inspector-gen- eral of agriculture. Between 1843 and 1849 he wrote voluminously upon professional subjects, such as fodder, fertilizers, milk, pastures, and the hiflucnce of the Crusades upon the Agricul- ture of the Middle Ages (1855). HENZEN, hen'tscn, Johann Heinrich Wil- HELM (1816-87). A German philologist and au- thority on Latin inscriptions. He was born at Bremen, studied at Bonn, Berlin, and, after trav- els through France, England, Italy, and Greece, at Rome, where from 1842 to the end of his life he was closely associated with the German Archaeo- logical Institute. With Mommsen and De Rossi he edited for the Berlin Academy that great work Corpus Inscriptioniim Latinarum, in which he personally edited the Fasti Consiilares to 766 A. U. C. and the inscriptions of the city of Rome after Cssar. His other works, besides many con- tributions to philological journals, to the Bul- letino and the Annali of the archaeological insti- tutes and Ephemeris Epigraphica, were a supplementary volume to Orelli's Inscriptionum Latinarum CoUectio (1856), and Acta Fratrum Arvalium quce Supersunt (1874). HENZEN, WiLHELM (1850—). A German dramatist, born in Bremen, and educated at Leipzig, where, save for two years (1874-75) at Jlunich, he lived after the success of his first play. Die Kypseliden (1874). Henzen was con- nected with the Stadttheater as dramaturgist from 1882 to 1885, and in 1893 became director of the National Association of Dramatic Authors and Composers. Besides the dramas: Liigen des Hcr^cns (1876); Ossian (1877); Zu-eidcutigkei- ten (1878): Htudiosns Lessiiiq (1880); Be'ttina de Monk (1881); Luther (1883); Vlrieh von Hutten (1884) ; Schiller vnd Lotte (1891) ; Tod des Tiherius (1895); and Kaiser, Konig vnd Biirger (1800), and others, he wrote the valu- able study, Ueber die Trdume in der altnor- dischen s'agalitteratur (1885-89). HENZI, or HENTZI, hen'tsp, Samltel (1701- 49). A Swiss patriot, born at Biiraplitz (Canton of Bern). After a very comprehensive training he held subordinate posts under the Government of the Canton of Bern; in 1741 was appointed a captain in the military service of the Duke of Modena ; and in 1744 with others addressed to HEPATICffl. the Council of Bern a petition for a revision of the Constitution. For this he was sentenced to ten years' banishment, commuted by pardon in 1748. While an assistant librarian at Bern he entered into a conspiracy which had for its ob- ject the subversion of the Constitution, but which he supposed intended merely a second petition to the cantonal authorities. The undertaking was, however, discovered, and Henzi was executed on July 17, 1749, with two associates. Lessing I)lanned a tragedy based on the fate of Henzi. Consult Babler, Samuel Henzi's Leben und Schriften (Aarau, 1880). HE'PAB (Lat., from Gk. fjirap, liver). A name given by the older chemists to brown or liver-colored compounds of sulphur. Uepar anti- nwnii, called also 'liver of antimony,' is a mix- ture of antimony trioxide, potassium sulphide, potassium carbonate, and antimony trisulphide, which has been used in veterinary medicine. Hcpar sulphuris, called also 'liver of sulphur,' is a mixture of potassium hyposulphite, potas- sium sulphide, and potassium pentasulphide, with some potassium carbonate, which has also been used in medicine. HEPAT'ICA, LivERLEAF (Neo-Lat., from Lat. hepaticus, Gk. rjiraTiKSs, hcpatikos, relating to the liver, from ^tto/), hepar, liver). A plant of the genus Anemone, which belongs to the natu- ral order Ranunculaceic. The best-known species, .1 netnone hepatica, has showy white, pink, or blue (lowers that in earliest spring emerge from a hairy bud which is surrounded by the sombre- tinted leaves of the previous year. It is the most beautiful of the early spring flowers of Eastern America, and one which by reason of its habitat and mode of blooming furnishes many texts for nature-study in elementary schools. The same species is found throughout Northern Europe, Avliere it is cultivated and often produces double flowers. The root has powerful astringent prop- erties. Another species, Anetnone angulosa, na- tive in Transylvania, is cultivated for the sake of its beautiful pale-blue flowers. HEPAT'ICiE (Neo-Lat. nom. pi., from Lat. hepaticus, pertaining to the liver). The techni- cal name of the group of plants popularly known as liverworts. The Hepatica? form one of the two primary subdivisions of bryophytes; the other one includes the mosses. Liverworts grow in a variety of conditions; some float on the water; many live in damp places, and many on the bark of trees, but in general they are moisture-loving plants. The prostrate body consists of what is