Johan Herman Vogt (23 September 1900 – 17 July 1991) was a Norwegian social economist, author and journal editor.

Biography

Vogt was born in

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(now Oslo), Norway. He was a son of

Johan Herman Lie Vogt Johan Herman Lie Vogt (14 October 18583 January 1932) was a Norwegian geologist and petrologist. Vogt was a professor at the University of Oslo and at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. Biography Vogt was born in Tvedestrand, Norway. He was a ...

(1858–1932) and Martha Johanne Abigael Kinck (1861–1908). His father was a professor in geology at

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was m ...

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. His twin brother

Jørgen Herman Vogt Jørgen Herman Vogt (21 July 1784 – 12 January 1862) was a Norwegian politician who served as First Minister of Norway from 1856 to 1858, during the personal union between Sweden and Norway. The first minister was subordinated to the gover ...

(1900–1972) was a newspaper editor and member of the Norwegian Parliament. His brother

Fredrik Vogt Fredrik Vogt (23 December 189226 January 1970) was a Norwegian engineer and civil servant. In the 1930s he was a professor and rector at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian abbreviation NTH). As the first director general of the Norwe ...

(1892–1970) was an engineer and rector at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. His brother

Thorolf Vogt Thorolf Vogt. Thorolf Vogt (7 June 1888 8 December 1958) was a Norwegian geologist, professor and Arctic explorer. Biography He was born in Vang, Hedmark, Norway. He was the son of Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1858–1932) and Martha Johanne Abigael K ...

(1888–1958) was a geologist and Arctic explorer. He earned his

Cand.oecon. Candidatus oeconomices (male) or Candidata oeconomices (female), often abbreviated cand.oecon. is an academic degree in economics at Education in Denmark, Danish, Háskóli Íslands, Icelandic and Higher education in Norway, Norwegian universities ...

from the

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in 1923. He was a member of

Mot Dag Mot Dag (, 'Towards Day') was a Norwegian political group. The group was active from the 1920s to the early 1930s and was first affiliated with the Labour Party. After World War II, many of its former members were leaders in Norwegian politics and ...

from 1921, and chaired the Norwegian section of Clarté from 1927. During the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Vogt was arrested in 1941. He was sent to the Grini concentration camp from February 1945 until the liberation of Norway at the end of

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. He was a professor of social economics at the

(UiO) from 1957 to 1970. From 1961 he was the head of the Demographic Institute at UiO. From 1950 to 1959 he served as vice-chairman and 1959-1963 chairman of the State Economic Association (''Statsøkonomisk forening''). He was editor of the journal ''Statsøkonomisk Tidsskrift'' from 1951 to 1959. He was also chairman of the Norwegian PEN Club from 1968 to 1981. Vogt was a member of the

Norwegian Academy of Sciences The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters ( no, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick Univer ...

from 1959. In 1976, he was the first recipient of the Fritt Ord Award (''Fritt Ords pris'').

Selected works

*''Den marxistiske lære om varebytte og profitt'' (1931) *''Dogmenes sammenbrudd innenfor den socialøkonomiske vitenskap'' (1937) *''Lærebok i samfunnsøkonomi '' (1940)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vogt, Johan 1900 births 1991 deaths University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the University of Oslo 20th-century Norwegian writers 20th-century Norwegian economists Mot Dag 20th-century non-fiction writers