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Alphons Sigismund (Alphons) von Engelhardt, Baron von Engelhardt-Schnellenstein

1861–1922

Baltic German landowner and journalist. From Belmont, Lautzen bei Dünaburg, Kurland (now Daugavpils, Latvia). Studied political economy at the university in Dorpat, Livonia (now Tartu, Estonia), 1882–6. Travelled widely in Germany, France, and the Orient.

Sources

Handbuch der kurländischen Ritterschaft, p. 235

Album Dorpat, p. 802

Bibliography

Album Dorpat: Album academicum der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat. Compiled by A. Hasselblatt and D. Otto. Dorpat: C. Mattiesen. 1889.

Handbuch der kurländischen Ritterschaft: Genealogisches Handbuch der kurländischen Ritterschaft. Edited by Oscar Stavenhagen, et al. for the Federation of Kurland nobility. Görlitz: C. A. Starke. [1939.]

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