The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Engelhardt, Vassili Pavlovich, Baron

ENGELHARDT, Vassili Pavlovich, Baron, Russian astronomer: b. Kustovitchi, Grodno, 1828. He received his education in Saint Petersburg, entered the government employ in 1847 and remained in its service for six years. He built an astronomical observatory in Dresden in 1872. He also gave valuable astronomical instruments to the University of Kazan and erected buildings there to house them. His published works include ‘Observations astronomiques faites à Dresde’ (3 vols., 1886, 1890, 1895).