Wolbrand Vogt

Wolbrand Vogt (born February 2, 1698 in Beverstedt , † April 11, 1774 in Bremen ) was a German theologian and Bremen cathedral pastor.

biography

Vogt was the son of pastor Johann Vogt (1665–1737) in Beverstedt and his wife Anna Margaretha Marschalck. He was tutored by his father and a tutor. From 1712 he attended the cathedral school and the Athenaeum Bremen . From 1716 he studied theology at the University of Wittenberg . He was then employed as court master and private tutor for the children of Karl Gustav von Scharnhorst (1670–1737) in Stade and Halle (Saale) . In 1725 he became a preacher in Bremervörde and in 1737 in Beverstedt, at the same time provost of the Evangelical Lutheran. Church district Beverstedt. In 1746 he was appointed cathedral preacher at Bremen Cathedral . He published a number of theological writings, mostly obituaries.

Since 1726 he was married to Anna Catharina Crusen (1706–1768), a daughter of the Bremen superintendent Christoph Bernhard Crusen . Of the couple's six children, four had offspring. The eldest son Johann Christoph Vogt (1727–1798) followed his father as cathedral preacher. The cathedral preacher Johann Vogt (1695–1764) was his older brother and the businessman Caspar Voght (1752–1839) in Hamburg was a nephew.

Vogt and his wife were buried in Bremen Cathedral.

literature

• Thomas Begerow: Wolbrand Vogt, † 1774; Anna Catharina Vogt b. Crusen, † 1768 . In: Blätter der Maus , Issue 30: The graves in St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen , Volume 18, Bremen 2005, pp. 78–85.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .