Thorolf Vogt. Thorolf Vogt (7 June 1888 8 December 1958) was a Norwegian geologist, professor and Arctic explorer.

Biography

He was born in

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, Norway. He was the son of Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1858–1932) and Martha Johanne Abigael Kinck. His elder 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 director general of the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Agency, His younger twin brothers were Johan Vogt (1900–91), a social economist and professor at the

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and

Jørgen Vogt Jørgen Herman Vogt (23 September 1900 – 3 August 1972) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician representing the Communist Party. He edited the newspapers ''Ny Tid'' and '' Friheten'', served four terms in Trondheim city council and one ...

(1900–72) newspaper editor and member of the Norwegian Parliament. He studied at the Royal Frederik University (now

) and completed his

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in 1906. He subsequently went on trips to universities in both

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and

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. In 1909 he got a job as an assistant at the

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where from 1914 to 1929 he held the position of state geologist. From 1915 to 1923 he was research associate at the University of Oslo. In 1928, he defended his doctorate dissertation ''Sulitjelmafeltets geologi og petrografi''. He was appointed professor of

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and

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at the

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 ...

from 1929. He was in charge of scientific expeditions to

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(1925, 1928) and to Greenland (1931). Thorolf Vogt was also elected to the

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in 1929. In 1936 he was elected to the

Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters ( da, Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab, DKNVS) is a Norwegian learned society based in Trondheim. It was founded in 1760 and is Norway's oldest scientific and scholarly institution. The s ...

. He was also award the Order of St. Olav. In 1950 he became a foreign member of the

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References

1888 births 1958 deaths People from Hamar University of Oslo alumni Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology 20th-century Norwegian geologists Explorers of Svalbard Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Order of Saint Olav {{Norway-academic-bio-stub