Carl Vogt
| Prof. Carl Vogt | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1817 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1895 | ||||||||||
| Residence | Geneva | ||||||||||
| Occupation | academic | ||||||||||
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Professor of Natural History
1864. It is proposed that the following works should be next undertaken by the Society:— Carl Vogt. Vorlesungen über den Menschen, seine Stellung in der Schöpfung und in der Geschichte der Erde. 8vo, Giessen, 1863. Edited by Dr. James Hunt, F.S.A., Pres. A.S.L. (In the Press.)
death noted in report of the council for 1895
Notes From Elsewhere
Carl Christoph Vogt (5 July 1817 in Gießen, Grand Duchy of Hesse – 5 May 1895 in Geneva, Switzerland) was a German scientist who emigrated to Switzerland. Vogt published a number of notable works on zoology, geology and physiology. All his life he was engaged in politics, in the German Frankfurt Parliament of 1848-9 and later in Switzerland.
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External Publications
Im Gebirg und auf den Gletschern (In the mountains and on the glaciers; 1843) Physiologische Briefe (Letters on physiology; 1845–46) Grundriss der Geologie (Outline of geology; 1860) Lehrbuch der Geologie und Petrefactenkunde (Textbook on geology and petrification; 2 vols., 1846–47; ed. 4, 1879) An English version of his Lectures on Man: his Place in Creation and in the History of the Earth was published by the Anthropological Society of London in 1864.
House Publications
On cretinism
on Italian crania
lectures on man: his place in creation and in the history of the earth; edited by J. Hunt
on microcephali; or, human-ape organisms. Translation
the primitive period of the human species. Trans
on the results of the congress of palaeontologists at Copenhagen see Anth. News, 188
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drawings in Anthropological Society Album at PRM