Friedrich Vogt (Germanist)

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Friedrich Hermann Traugott Vogt (born March 11, 1851 in Greifswald , † October 28, 1923 in Marburg ) was a German historian, philologist and Germanist.

Life

Friedrich Vogt, son of Karl August Traugott Vogt , attended the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gymnasium Greifswald and began studying theology at the University of Greifswald , which he continued at the University of Tübingen and moved to the University of Leipzig , where he worked with Friedrich Zarncke studied German philology. In 1873 he had become an assistant at the Göttingen University Library . In 1874 he became a lecturer at the University of Greifswald, in 1876 at the same time custodian of the Greifswald library and associate professor.

In April 1885 he took over a full professorship in German philology at the University of Kiel . As the successor to Karl August Weinhold , he went as a professor at the University of Breslau in 1889 and in 1902 as the successor to Edward Schröder as a professor at the University of Marburg . Vogt, who had also headed the rectorate of the Marburg University in 1908/09 , was one of the last great German scholars at the older school.

In 1922 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

Selection of works

  • Life and poetry of the German minstrels in the Middle Ages,
  • About the Margaret legends,
  • The Silesian Christmas Games, 1901
  • Minstrel's Spring, 1888
  • History of German literature from the earliest times to the present, 1897
  • Salman and Morolf, 1880

literature

  • History of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel. 1665-1965. 1965, p. 212.
  • Andreas Schumann: Nation and literary history. Romance reception in the German Empire between utopia and apology. Iudicium Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-89129-451-4 , p. 298.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 915 No. 5721, p. 175 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 248.
personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogt, Friedrich Hermann Traugott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, philologist and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1923
Place of death Marburg