Andreas Von Baimgartner, baron, an Austrian statesman and savant, born at Friedberg, Bohemia, Nov. 23, 1793, died at Hietzing, near Vienna, July 28, 1865. He studied mathematics, and in 1817 became professor of physical science at Olinutz, and in 1823 in the university of Vienna. Ill health compelling him to refrain from teaching, he subsequently superintended various manufactories controlled by the government, and after 1846 he directed the construction of telegraphs and railways. He was minister of commerce and public works and of finance from 1851 to 1855, and in 1861 became a member of the house of peers. He popularized science in relation to art and industry, and his lectures were collected in a volume entitled Mechanik in Hirer Anwendung auf Kunste und Gewerbe (2d ed., Vienna, 1823). His Naturlehre (1823; 8th ed., 1844-'5) and his contributions to periodicals diffused much knowledge of natural science; and his Chemie und Geschichte der Himmelskorper nach der Spectralanalyse (1862), and Die me-chanische Theorie der War me (1864), contain his academical lectures on chemistry. - See Schrotter, Freiherr von Baumgartner, eine Lebensskizze (Vienna, 1866).