The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Engelhardt, Moritz von

ENGELHARDT, Moritz von, Russian naturalist: b. Esthonia, 1779; d. 1842. He received his education at Leipzig and Göttingen and the Freiberg mining school. He made a tour of Europe with Karl von Raumer and in 1811 visited the Crimea and Caucasus with von Parrot, and seven years later he traveled through Finland. He taught mineralogy at Dorpat in 1820-30, and thereafter traveled and explored Russia, discovering vast deposits of gold, platinum, etc., detailed in his reports, which were issued at Riga in 1830. His principal works are ‘Geognosticher Umriss von Finland’ (1821); and, with von Raumer, ‘Geognostische Versuche’ (1816) and ‘Geognostische Umrisse’ (1817).