Engelhardt (noble family)

Engelhardt family coat of arms

Engelhardt is the name of a Baltic noble family . The family currently continues.

Contrary to earlier representations, such as in Kneschke and some of it Vorautoren used, the family is no longer the Silesian Engelhart recycled and also by the two in 1776 and 1860 ennobled families Engelhardt to distinguish.

history

The Engelhardt were vassals of the Archbishop of Riga and were first mentioned in a document with Hans Engelhardt on May 20, 1496, when he acquired the Azegall court, later named after the Engelhardtshof family, from Kremon from the cathedral chapter . The lineage of the family begins around 1600 with the brothers Caspar and Michael Engelhardt.

On May 28, 1734, the family received the Swedish nobility naturalization . The royal Swedish captain Wilhelm Gerhard von Engelhardt from the house of Perst was introduced to the nobility class of the Swedish knighthood in 1742 (No. 1858). The enrollment with the Estonian knighthood took place on February 8, 1745 for Caspar Friedrich von Engelhardt, heir to von Kuckers . The Engelhardt from the houses of Nawwast and Perst enrolled in the Livonian knighthood in 1747 . Engelhardt from the houses Alt-Born , Brüggen and Kummeln were accepted into the Kurländische Ritterbank in 1789 . By Senatsukase on September 21, 1853 and December 7, 1854, the entire Engelhardt family was granted Russian recognition of the right to use the baron title .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Barons Engelhardt

The family coat of arms is divided , at the top a golden star in blue , below in red three golden ears of wheat (or Schmilgen ) growing out of green lawn . On the helmet with blue-gold blankets on the right and red-gold covers on the left, over a blue-gold bulge between a gold flight on the left and blue flight on the right, a red-winged naked angel with a red apron holding a green palm branch in each hand .

The baronial crest is by Baron crown and two gold lions supplemented as supporter.

Relatives

• Gustav Friedrich von Engelhardt (1732–1798), Estonian knighthood captain
• Wassili Wassiljewitsch Engelhardt (1758–1828), German-Baltic-Russian officer and statesman
• Georg von Engelhardt (1775–1862), educator and statesman
• Moritz von Engelhardt (1779–1842), German-Baltic mineralogist
• Pawel Wassiljewitsch Engelhardt (1798–1849), Russian landowner and officer
• Helvig Conrad Engelhardt (1825–1881), Danish archaeologist
• Basil von Engelhardt (1828–1915), astronomer
• Alexander Nikolajewitsch Engelhardt (1831 / 1832-1893), Russian agrochemist
• Walter von Engelhardt (1864–1940), Düsseldorf's first gardening authority
• Alexander Baron Engelhardt (1885–1960), German-Baltic doctor, founder of the Behring Archive in Marburg
• Wladimir Alexandrowitsch Engelhardt (1894–1984), Russian biochemist
• Wolf von Engelhardt (1910–2008), German-Baltic geologist and mineralogist
• Dietrich von Engelhardt (born 1941), German science and medical historian, son of Wolf von Engelhardt
• Hermann von Engelhardt (1853–1914), German genre painter

literature

• Gustaf Elgenstierna : The introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor. Volume 2. Stockholm 1926
• Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods , part 1, 1: Livonia. Görlitz, 1929, pp. 31-51
• Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knights , Part 2, 1: Estonia. Görlitz, 1930, pp. 61-68 ; Supplements and Corrections p. 13–14
• Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods , part 3, 1: Courland. Görlitz, 1939, pp. 222-235
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , FA B 4. Limburg (Lahn) 1967, pp. 154-227; FA 14, 1986, pp. 93-138; FA 24, 2008, pp. 31-76
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, p. 151. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975; Volume XVII, 2008, p. 214 ISSN  0435-2408
• Engelhardt . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 7 : Egyptologi-Feinschmecker . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1907, Sp. 544 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Web links

Commons : Engelhardt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Engelhardt. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 3, Leipzig 1861, pp. 115-116, (digitized version ) .
2. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon . Volume 2, Leipzig 1836, p. 132, (digitized version) .
3. ^ Hermann von Bruiningk , Nicolaus Busch : Livländische Güterurkunden , Volume 1.Riga 1908, No. 654.