It is named after the Baltic German geologist and mineralogist Wolf von Engelhardt (1910–2008).
The Engelhardt name has been attached to a scientific institute in Moscow, the observatory of Kazan University, the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the main railway station in Smolensk, a crater on the moon, an asteroid, and a star in the constellation Cygnus.
4217 Engelhardt | Wolf von Engelhardt | Tom Engelhardt | Henry Engelhardt | Engelhardt Ice Ridge | Aleksandra von Engelhardt |