Carl Vogt | |
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.jpg) Vogt c. 1870 | |
| Born | 5 July 1817 |
| Died | 5 May 1895 (aged 77) Geneva, Switzerland |
| Nationality | German–Swiss |
| Education | University of Giessen University of Bern (M.D., 1839) |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | German materialism[1] |
| Institutions | University of Giessen University of Geneva |
Main interests | Philosophy of science, political philosophy |
Notable ideas | Polygenism |
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August Christoph Carl Vogt (German: [foːkt] ; 5 July 1817 – 5 May 1895) was a German scientist, philosopher, popularizer of science, and politician 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 1848–49 and later in Switzerland.[5]
- ^ Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 165: "During the 1850s German ... scientists conducted a controversy known ... as the materialistic controversy. It was specially associated with the names of Vogt, Moleschott and Büchner" and p. 173: "Frenchmen were surprised to see Büchner and Vogt. ... [T]he French were surprised at German materialism".
- ^ The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, Vol. 70, 1923, p. 184.
- ^ Nicolaas A. Rupke, Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography, University of Chicago Press, 2008, p. 54.
- ^ John Powell, Derek W. Blakeley, Tessa Powell (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, "Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich (1849–1936)."
- ^ Andreas W. Daum, Wissenschaftspopularisierung im 19. Jahrhundert: Bürgerliche Kultur, naturwissenschaftliche Bildung und die deutsche Öffentlichkeit, 1848–1914. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1998, pp. 13, 15, 25, 160, 210, 254, 277, 289–90, 294–97, 355, 357, 377, 386–87, 393, 398–99, 418, 426, 430, 451, 456, 514–15, including a short biography.