Karl August Traugott Vogt Explained

Karl August Traugott Vogt
Birth Date:15 March 1808
Birth Place:Wittenberg, Germany
Death Place:Greifswald, Germany
Nationality:German
Education:Humboldt University of Berlin
Children:Friedrich Vogt
Language:German

Karl August Traugott Vogt, name sometimes given as Carl Vogt (15 March 1808  - 22 January 1869) was a German Protestant theologian. He was the father of philologist Friedrich Vogt (1851–1923).

Vogt was born in Wittenberg. In 1830 he obtained his habilitation at the University of Berlin, where he later became an associate professor of church history and practical theology.[1] During his time spent in Berlin, he gave sermons at the Trinity Church. In 1837 he relocated as a full professor to the University of Greifswald,[2] where on three occasions he served as university rector (1846/47, 1855/56 and 1862/63).[3] In Greifswald, he also served as an ecclesiastical superintendent and as a member of the Consistory.[2] He died in Greifswald, aged 60.

Selected works

With Anton Friedrich Ludwig Pelt and Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald, he edited the Homiliarum Patristicum.[2]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=IU4MLOE8Z2UC&dq=%22Vogt%2C+Carl+August%22+1808+Wittenberg&pg=PA1117 Deutsche Philologie an den preußischen Universitäten im 19. Jahrhundert ...
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=1PhMAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Vogt%2C+Carl%22+1808+Wittenberg&pg=PA810 Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Volume 10
  3. https://www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet/geschichte/chronik-der-universitaet/rektorenchronik/rektorenchronik-1800-1899/ Die Rektoren der Universität Greifswald
  4. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Vogt,KarlAugustTraugott.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library