The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Engelhardt, Georg von

ENGELHARDT, Georg von, Russian statesman: b. Riga, 1775; d. 1862. He went to Saint Petersburg in 1790 and six years later secured a post in the Department of Foreign Affairs. He became Undersecretary of State in 1801 under Alexander I. He was made director of the Pedagogical Institute in 1811 and of the Lyceum at Tsarkoe-Selo in 1816. His liberalism, however, led to his removal in 1823. From 1838 to 1852 he edited the Russische Landwirtschaftliche Zeitung. He published ‘Russische Miscellan zur Kenntnis Russlands und seiner Bewohner’ (4 vols., 1828-32) and edited the manuscript journals of the explorer, Wrangel, which he issued in ‘Reise längs der Nordküste von Sibirien und auf dem Eismeer’ (1839).