Alexander Baron Engelhardt was born in 1885 in the village of
Alaküla in the
Governorate of Estonia. He initially received private tuition. From the fall of 1901, he attended the Kaiser Alexander I Classical
Grammar School in
Reval. He passed his school-leaving examination there in 1906. From the fall of 1906, he studied medicine at the University of Dorpat. He became a member of the Baltic Corporation Estonia Dorpat. In the summer semester of 1910, he transferred to the University of Munich (
LMU Munich). He received his doctorate in medicine in 1912 After passing the Russian state examination in
Moscow in the same year, he worked as a pediatrician in Moscow for two years. During the First World War, he served as a military doctor in the
Imperial Russian Army. In 1918/19 he was a doctor at the city hospital in
Riga. He went to Germany in 1919 and was a factory doctor in Worms from 1920 to 1923. He passed the German state medical examination at the
Hessian Ludwigs University in
Giessen in 1923. From 1923 to 1958, he was Scientific Secretary of the Behringwerke. The
Philipps University of Marburg gave him a lectureship in the history of medicine, initially as a substitute for Hans-Ulrich Rosemann (winter semester 1941/42-WS 1944/45, summer semester 1950, winter semester 1951/52-1953). He taught as an honorary professor until SS 1960. As an associate professor of medicine, he supervised several dissertations on medical history. On 8 July 1937, he applied for membership to the
Nazi Party and was accepted retroactively to 1 May of the same year (membership number 4.195.343). He was also a member of the
Sturmabteilung,
National Socialist People's Welfare,
German Labour Front and the
National Socialist German Doctors' League. He was also head of the specialist group of the
Zentrale für Ostforschung. From 1951 to 1953, he was the first chairman of the Baltic Philistine Association. He died on 26 May 1960 in
Marburg. == References ==