Jens Theodor Paludan Vogt (23 September 1830 – 25 October 1892
) was a

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engineer and first director of

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who operated the first tramway in Oslo. He was the son of priest Niels Nielsen Vogt (1798–1869). He was a nephew of politicians

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and David Vogt, and a first cousin of Volrath Vogt and

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. He grew up in Fiskum and studied at the

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in Gothenburg, Sweden. He also studied at the Leibniz University Hannover and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology before he was employed by the

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in 1853. Vogt moved to Homansbyen in 1877. He married author Johanne Collett, and had the son Nils Collett Vogt—who became an important Norwegian

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. Vogt travelled often abroad to study innovations in electrical tramways. In 1883, he visited

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and Nantes. In the summer of 1885, he travelled to Antwerp and co-founded the

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. Trygve Poppe succeeded him as director of Kristiania Sporveisselskap on 1 January 1894.

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* 1830 births 1892 deaths Norwegian businesspeople Norwegian engineers {{norway-business-bio-stub