Johan Vogt


Johan Herman Vogt was a Norwegian social economist, author and journal editor.

Biography

Vogt was born in Kristiania, Norway. He was a son of Johan Herman Lie Vogt and Martha Johanne Abigael Kinck.
His father was a professor in geology at Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim. His twin brother Jørgen Herman Vogt was a newspaper editor and member of the Norwegian Parliament.
His brother Fredrik Vogt was an engineer and rector at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. His brother Thorolf Vogt was a geologist and Arctic explorer.
He earned his Cand.oecon. from the University of Oslo in 1923. He was a member of Mot Dag 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 World War II.
He was a professor of social economics at the University of Oslo from 1957 to 1970. From 1961 he was the head of the Demographic Institute at UiO.
From 1950-59 he served as vice-chairman and 1959-63 chairman of the State Economic Association. He was editor of the Statistical Journal from 1951-59. He was also chairman of the Norwegian PEN Club from 1968-81.
Vogt was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences from 1959.
In 1976, he was the first recipient of the Fritt Ord Award.

Selected works