The New International Encyclopædia/Engelhardt, Moritz von

ENGELHARDT, Moritz von (1779-1842). A Russian naturalist. He was born in Esthonia, and was educated at the universities of Leipzig and Göttingen. In company with Karl von Raumer he traveled through central Europe and England, and in 1811 he undertook a journey with Friedrich von Parrot through the Crimea and the Caucasus. The results of his extensive tour through Finland in 1818 were published in the work entitled Geognostischer Umriss von Finland, vol. i. of an elaborately projected Darstellung aus dem Felsgebäude Russlands (1821). From 1820 to 1830 he was professor of mineralogy at Dorpat, and in 1826 he entered upon those extensive travels through Russia in the course of which he discovered the vast deposits of gold, platinum, and diamonds described in his famous reports published at Riga in 1828 and 1830. His other literary productions include a description of his first extensive tour, published by him jointly with his companion Raumer in the works respectively entitled Geognostische Versuche (1816) and Geognostische Umrisse (1817).