Karl Vogt

Abstract

THE life of Prof. Karl Vogt, who died on May 6, was no tranquil scientific career, for he was a righting philosopher. He first comes into notice in 1839, working with Agassiz, then Professor at Neuchatel, on the “Freshwater Fishes of Central Europe.” This great work, never completed, determined the direction of Vogt's best research during the rest of his long life. It was only in 1888–94 that the “Traité d'Anatomie Comparée,” by Vogt and Jung, was published in Paris, taking high rank as a standard authority, and likely to retain it. He returned from Paris to his native town of Giessen, where he had been appointed Professor.