Albert Vogt (Byzantinist)

François Charles Albert Vogt (born August 5, 1874 in Geneva ; † October 4, 1942 there ) was a Swiss historian and Byzantinist .

Ordained a priest in 1899, he studied Byzantine Studies under Charles Diehl in Paris . In 1908 he received his doctorate from the University of Paris to docteur ès lettres. From 1910 to 1921 he was associate professor for first general, later modern history in the philosophy faculty of the University of Friborg (Switzerland) , 1919–1928 he was archpriest and pastor of Notre-Dame in Geneva. He then returned to Byzantine studies, including editions of Byzantine texts, above all a commented Greco-French edition of the first book of the book of ceremonies of Emperor Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos , as well as works on the Byzantine theater and the topography of Constantinople .

From 1908 Vogt co-founded the Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques (first delivery in 1909, first volume in 1912), together with Alfred Baudrillart (1859–1942) and the oratorian priest Urbain Rouziès (1872–1956 ); In 1910 he founded the journal Analecta Gallicana, Revue d'Histoire de l'Église de France.

Fonts

• Basile Ier, empereur de Byzance (867-886), et la civilization byzantine à la fin du IXe siècle. Picard, Paris 1908.
• Vie de S. Luc le stylite. In: Analecta Bollandiana. 28, 1909, pp. 5-56.
• Le théâtre à Byzance et dans l'empire du IVe au XIIIe siècle I. Le théâtre profane. Bière, Bordeaux 1932. ( Review )
• Oraison funèbre de Basile I par son fils Léon VI le Sage. Éditée avec introduction et traduction par Albert Vogt et Irenée Haussherr . Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum, Rome 1932 ( Orientalia Christiana. 26, 1).
• Constantin VII Porphyrogénète. Le livre des cérémonies. Tome I: Livre I. Chapitres 1-46 / 37. Texts établi et traduit by Albert Vogt; Commentaire. Livre I, Chapitres 1-46 (37) par Albert Vogt. Paris, "Les Belles Lettres" 1935; Tome II. Livre I, Chapitres 47 (38) -92 (83). Texts établi et traduit by Albert Vogt; Commentaire. Livre I, Chapitre 47 (38) -92 (83) by Albert Vogt. Ibid. 1939. 1940, reprint 1967 a. ö. ( Collection byzantine publiée sous le patronage de l ' Association Guillaume Budé )
• L'hippodrome de Constantinople. In: Byzantion. 10, 1935, pp. 471-488.

literature

• Gerhard Rexin:  Albert Vogt. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 29, Bautz, Nordhausen 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-452-6 , Sp. 1507-1513.

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert Vogt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hansjörg Roth: Albert Vogt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Vogt, Albert .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .