The New Student's Reference Work/Vogt, Karl

Vogt (fōgt), Karl, a German naturalist, was born at Giessen, July 5, 1817. At Neufchatel he studied natural history for five years under Agassiz. He was made professor of natural history at Giessen in 1847, but lost his position and had to leave Germany because of his zeal in the revolutionary movements of 1848. In 1849 he was made professor of geology at Geneva, and held that position to the time of his death, May 6, 1895. He claims to have written the first volume and a part of the second of Agassiz’s Natural History of Fresh-Water Fishes. He also wrote Studies in Geology and Petrifactions; Man, His Place in Creation and in the History of the Earth; Essays on the Darwinian Theory; works on physiology, zoology, anthropology and geology; and many scientific papers. His work on Faith and Science, published in 1855, is best known, and has been severely criticised for its supposed atheistic tendencies.