Moritz von Engelhardt (mineralogist)

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Otto Moritz Ludwig von Engelhardt ( Russian Мориц Федорович фон Энгельгардт ; born November 27, jul. / 8. December  1779 greg. Gut Why / Estonia , † January 29 jul. / 10. February  1842 greg. In Tartu ) was a German -Baltic mineralogist .

Life

Moritz von Engelhardt came from the Engelhardt noble family . His father was the Estonian Knighthood Captain Gustav Friedrich von Engelhardt (1732–1798). He first attended the knight and cathedral school in Reval . With increasing interest in nature and the rocks occurring in it , he decided to study mineralogy at the Bergakademie Freiberg . His father forbade him to take this course and asked him to study law at the University of Leipzig . After a short study time in Leipzig and then in Göttingen , Engelhardt finished the course due to a lack of interest. Before he could devote himself to the science of mineralogy, in 1796 he was summoned by Tsar Paul to do military service in his homeland.

In 1800 Engelhardt was discharged from military service and decided to go on a trip shortly after the death of Tsar Paul. During his stay in Livonia, Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy, he acquired knowledge of mineralogy, chemistry and physics. From then on Engelhardt undertook several research trips for the geognostic investigation of rocks. There he got to know Karl Georg von Raumer and Friedrich Parrot and worked with them. With Parrot he undertook a research trip to the Crimea and the Caucasus between 1811 and 1812 .

Engelhardt settled in Dorpat in 1812 and was appointed professor of mineralogy at Dorpat University in 1820 . In the next few years he dealt with the formation of the Ural Mountains and did a lot of research.

Engelhardt died in his hometown of Dorpat at the age of 62.

plant

  • Fragments from Mineralogy , first issue, Mitau 1810
  • Journey to the Krimm and the Caucasus , Berlin 1815
  • Geognostic experiments , Berlin 1816
  • Geognostic outlines of France, Great Britain, part of Germany and Italy , Leipzig 1817
  • Geognostic investigation method , Dorpat 1817
  • On mineral science , Dorpat 1823

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the burial register of St. John's Church in Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu Jaani kirik)
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods , part 2, 1: Estonia, Görlitz, 1930, p. 63.
  3. ^ Robel and Robel (1999), p. 3.

literature

  • Johann Friedrich von Recke and Karl Eduard von Napiersky : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces , JF Steffenhagen and son, Mitau 1827, pp. 506–509.
  • C. Schiffner: From the life of old Freiberg mountain students. E. Maukisch, Freiberg 1935, p. 26.
  • Gerd Robel and Hergard Robel: Alieni de Russia Russia reports from the earliest times to the year 1855 , Vol. 3.3 (1811-12). (= Eastern European Institute Munich Communications; 30). Ed .: Hermann Beyer-Thoma, Munich: 1999. ISBN 3-921396-41-7 .
  • Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods , part 1, 1: Livland, Görlitz, 1929, p. 39.

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personal data
SURNAME Engelhardt, Moritz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelhardt, Otto Moritz Ludwig von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH Good why
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1842
Place of death Dorpat