Joseph Vogt (ancient historian)

Joseph Vogt (born June 23, 1895 in Schechingen ; † July 14, 1986 in Tübingen ) was a German ancient historian .

Joseph Vogt. Signature 1979

Life

Joseph Vogt came from a Catholic farming family. After studying history in Tübingen and Berlin with Wilhelm Weber , Johannes Haller and Eduard Meyer , Vogt received his doctorate in 1921. He completed his habilitation in Tübingen in 1923, then worked there as a private lecturer and was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Tübingen from 1926 to 1929. Further stations in his scientific career were Würzburg (1929), Breslau (1936), again Tübingen (1940) and Freiburg im Breisgau (1944). In 1946 he took over his chair in Tübingen again, which he held until his retirement in 1962. Vogt took on numerous positions in academic self-government. In Würzburg he was dean in 1934/35 and prorector in 1935/36, also in Breslau in 1938/39. In 1952/53 he was dean and 1958/59 rector in Tübingen. Vogt was a member of the Historical Commission for Silesia .

Ideologically he was close to National Socialism from an early age , especially since Vogt had hardly made a secret of his racist, anti-Semitic and anti-democratic attitude even in the Weimar Republic . In 1933 he joined the SA and the Nazi teachers' association , and in 1937 he joined the NSDAP and the Nazi teachers association . He later became a corresponding member of the " Institute for Research on the Jewish Question " founded in 1941 . In September 1945 he was therefore suspended from duty, but was soon reintegrated into academic operations. He supervised a total of 39 doctoral students, including Walter Beringer , Karl Dietrich Bracher , Karl Christ , Jürgen Deininger , Franz Georg Maier , the journalist Albert Wucher , and five post-doctoral students, including Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg and Karl Friedrich Stroheker .

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Vogt mainly dealt with topics from Roman history . His depictions of the Roman Republic (first in 1932) and the Age of Constantine (first in 1949) were considered standard works for decades. At the Academy of Sciences in Mainz, in 1950, Vogt founded an extensive research program on slavery in antiquity , which was intended as a response to corresponding activities in historical studies in the socialist countries.

In the Third Reich, Vogt supported research programs that served to provide ideological protection for National Socialist policies (publication of the anthology Rome and Carthage 1943). His treatise Kaiser Julian und die Juden was published as early as 1939 .

In ancient studies, his name is connected to the collection of encyclopedic proportions, the rise and fall of the Roman world , which originally began as a commemorative publication on his 75th birthday.

Fonts

• The Alexandrian coins. 2 volumes, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1924.
• Roman History I: The Roman Republic . Herder, Freiburg 1932. 6th, revised edition: The Roman Republic . Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 1973. Paperback edition Heyne, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-453-48059-7 .
• Constantine the Great and his Century. Münchner Verlag, Munich 1949. 2nd edition 1960. Paperback edition König, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-8082-0046-4 .
• Slavery and Humanity in Classical Greece. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1953 (= treatises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature. Humanities and social science class. Born 1953, Volume 4).
• Law and Freedom of Action in History , Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1955.
• History of antiquity and universal history , Steiner, Wiesbaden 1957.
• Structure of the ancient slave wars (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1957, No. 1).
• On the equality of the sexes in civil society of the Greeks , Verlag der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz 1960 (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1960, No. 2).
• Paths to the historical universe. From tendril to Toynbee. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart 1961 (= Urban books. The scientific paperback series , volume 51).
• Ammianus Marcellinus as a narrative historian of the late period (= treatises of the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1963, No. 8).
• Cultural world and barbarians - on the image of humanity in late antique society (= treatises by the humanities and social sciences class of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Born in 1967, No. 1).

literature

• Karl Christ: Joseph Vogt (1895–1986). In: Karl Christ: New Profiles of Ancient History. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-534-10289-4 , pp. 63-124.
• Diemuth Königs: Joseph Vogt. An ancient historian in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich (= Basel Contributions to History. Volume 168). Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-7190-1436-3 .
• Jürgen Deininger: Nekrolog Joseph Vogt June 23, 1895– July 14, 1986. In: Historical magazine . Volume 246, 1988, pp. 219-223.
• Volker Losemann : Vogt, Joseph. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 1272-1274.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joseph Vogt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Joseph Vogt  in the German Digital Library

Remarks

1. ↑ Diemuth Königs: Joseph Vogt. An ancient historian in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Helbing & Lichtenhahn, Basel 1995, ISBN 3-7190-1436-3 (= Basel Contributions to History , 168), p. 64.
2. ^ Fifty Years of the Historical Commission for Silesia . In: Yearbook of the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau , Volume 17, 1972, list of members p. 416.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 643.
4. ^ Karl Christ: Joseph Vogt †. In: Gnomon. Volume 59, 1987, pp. 476-479 (to the students p. 478).