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An Engelhard silver bar An Engelhard poured 2 oz 99.99% pure gold bar. Engelhard Corporation was an American Fortune 500 company headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, United States. It is credited with developing the first production catalytic converter. In 2006, the German chemical manufacturer BASF bought Engelhard for US$5 billion.
The house of Engelhardt has produced many distinguished and well known charitable works — the building of churches and hospitals, large donations to universities, public libraries and observatories (including the donation of ancient manuscripts), free land for the construction of railways and other public purposes, and the liberation of serfs.
Engelhard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. (1917–1971), American industrialist; Hermann Engelhard (1903–1984), German athlete; Jane Engelhard (1917–2004), American philanthropist; Marc Engelhard(born 1973), German actor, musician, journalist, designer, author
Notable people with the surname include: Members of the noble Russian Engelhardt family, including: . Christoph von Engelhardt (1762–1831), Russian general; Alexander Bogdanovich Engelhardt (1795–1859), Russian general
Engelhard's father began purchasing metals firms in 1902 with his wife's dowry. [6] [15] As a young man, Engelhard worked in the business, dealing in platinum, gold, and silver. Upon the death of his father in 1950, Charles Engelhard inherited a $20 million interest in the Engelhard Corporation and eventually grew it to over $200 million. [11]
Charles Anthony Engelhardt was born November 13, 1851, in Bilshausen, Hanover, Germany to Anthony and Elizabeth Engelhardt. His father was skilled in the manufacture of willowware.
Engelhard's brother Richard was an elite long-distance runner in the 1920s. In 1932 Engelhard married Ruth Becker, a German runner who set three world records in the 80 m hurdles and 4 × 200 m relay. Their son Bernd and daughter Petra also became short to middle-distance runners.
Engelhard was born in Manhattan on November 19, 1906, the first child of George Engelhard, a lawyer, and Agnes Stieglitz. She was a niece of Alfred Stieglitz, an American photographer and modern art promoter, and his wife, Georgia O'Keeffe, an American artist considered by many to be the "Mother of American modernism".