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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.
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 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
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]
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
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.
Among Engelhard's other creations are “Love on a Swan,” “Dancing Springtime,” “Slinger with Dog,” “Bacchus Conquering a Panther,” “Cupid and Psyche,” “A Child Fishing,” “A Child Threading a Needle,” statue of St. Michael, portrait medallion of Bismarck (for the monument of Canossa, near Harzberg), “Christ Blessing ...
An English translation, Imperium - A Fiction of the South Seas, was published by Farrar Straus Giroux in 2015. [15] Engelhardt appears as a major character in Adrian McKinty 's 2014 novel The Sun Is God ( ISBN 1616140682 ), whose plot revolves around real life suspicious deaths at the colony. [ 16 ]