Baur, Frederick

WILHELM VON, a Ru ian engineer general, B. in Hanau, Germany, 1735, early adopted a military life, and in 1755 entered the British service. In 1757 he obtained the rank of general and engineer-in chief. Frederick II. of Pru ia ennobled him. In 1769 he entered into the service of Catherine II., empre of Ru ia, and was employed against the Turks. The empre had a high notion of his talents, and employed him in making the aqueduct of Tsarskoe-Selo, for supplying Moscow with water, and in deepening the canal near St. Petersburg, at the end of which he constructed a large harbor, and other important undertakings. D. at St. Petersburg, 1783. Baur had for his secretary the celebrated Kotzebue, who directed in his name the German theatre at St. Petersburg.