Georg von Engelhardt

Georg von Engelhardt
Posthumous portrait by Pavel Porokhovnikov
Personal details
Born	12 August 1775 Riga
Died	15 January 1862 Saint Petersburg

Georg von Engelhardt (Russian:Его́р Анто́нович Энгельга́рдт; 1775-1862) was a Russian statesman, and a noted member of the Baltic-German Engelhardt family.

Biography

He was born in Riga. He went to Saint Petersburg in 1790 and six years later secured a post in the Department of Foreign Affairs. He became Undersecretary of State in 1801 under Alexander I in the newly created Imperial Council. He was made director of the Pedagogical Institute in 1811 and of the Lyceum at Tsarskoye Selo in 1816. His liberalism, however, led to his removal in 1823.

Literary work

From 1838 to 1852 he edited the Russische Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung (“Russian Agricultural News”). He published Russische Miscellan zur Kenntnis Russlands und seiner Bewohner (“Russian miscellany of facts about Russia and its inhabitants,” 4 vols., 1828–32) and edited the manuscript journals of the explorer Ferdinand von Wrangel, which he issued in Reise längs der Nordküste von Sibirien und auf dem Eismeer (“Trip along the north coast of Siberia and the Arctic Ocean,” 1839).

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Engelhardt, Georg von" . Encyclopedia Americana.
• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Engelhardt, Georg von" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.