Vogt,

Vogt, CARL, naturalist, was born in Giessen, 5th July 1817, and had his education there and at Bern, two of his teachers being Liebig and Agassiz. In 1847 he became professor of Zoology at Giessen, but soon lost the post from his extreme politics, whereupon (1852) he accepted the chair of Geology at Geneva. He headed an expedition to the North Cape in 1861. Chosen in 1878 a member of the Swiss National Assembly, he showed himself a thorough-going Materialist, and a champion of Darwinism in its fullest consequences. Of his many books may here be named the Lectures on Man (Anthropological Society, 1864), Zoologische Briefe (1851), Altes und Neues aus dem Tier- und Menschenleben (1859). He died 6th May 1895.