Karl August Traugott Vogt

Traugott Vogt in 1840

Karl August Traugott Vogt , also Carl Vogt , (born March 15, 1808 in Wittenberg , † January 22, 1869 in Greifswald ) was a German Lutheran theologian and professor at the University of Greifswald .

Life

Vogt, son of the late Traugott Karl August Vogt and his wife Johanna Christiane Schilling, studied Protestant theology in Berlin , especially with August Neander . He completed his habilitation on August 4, 1830 in Berlin and worked as a private lecturer, associate professor and preacher. On September 10, 1837 Vogt was appointed full professor for exegesis and practical theology at the theological faculty of the University of Greifswald. He received his doctorate in theology, rose in the hierarchy of the theological faculty, became superintendent and consistorial councilor of Greifswald and was rector of this university in 1846/47, 1855/56 and 1862/63 . He was of particular importance as a Bugenhagen researcher .

Vogt had married the daughter of superintendent Ernst August Dankegott Hoppe and his wife Friedericke Wilhelmine Nitzsch from Eisleben in Berlin. His son Paul Friedrich Immanuel Vogt became a surgeon, his son Friedrich Hermann Traugott Vogt a historian.

Publications (selection)

• Neoplatonism and Christianity. Investigations into the alleged writings of Dionysius the Areopagite, with regard to related phenomena. Friedrich August Herbig Verlag, Berlin 1836.
• Oratio natalitiis regis Friderici Guilelmi IV / habita a Carolo Augusto Deofido Vogt. Greifswald 1850.
• Joannis Bugenhagii Pomerani libelli duo quos ex autographis / Carolus Augustus Deofidus Vogt. - nunc primum edidit. Publishing house Kunike, Greifswald 1856.
• Evangelical hymn book for church and house Greifswald 1866.
• Johannes Bugenhagen Pomeranus. Life and Selected Scriptures. Published by RL Friderichs, Elberfeld 1867 ( online ).

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Werner Buchholz : The University of Greifswald and the German higher education landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3515084754 .
• Ferdinand Ascherson : Documents on the history of the jubilee ceremony of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin in October 1860, together with a list of the university's teachers from its foundation to October 15, 1862 . Guttentag, Berlin 1863, p. 219.
• Eduard Emil Koch , Adolf Wilhelm Koch: History of hymns and church hymns . 3rd edition, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1973, ISBN 3487047462 , ISBN 9783487047461 , vol. 7 p. 107.

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Beseler	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1846	Georg Friedrich Schömann

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Beseler	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1855	Georg Friedrich Schömann

predecessor	Office	successor
Eduard Baumstark	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1862	Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben