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Carl Vogt
August Christoph Carl Vogt was a German scientist, philosopher, popularizer of science, and politician who emigrated to Switzerland. Vogt published a number of notable works on zoology, geology and physiology. All his life he was engaged in politics, in the German Frankfurt Parliament of 1848–49 and later in Switzerland.
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Born 5 July 1817 · Died 5 May 1895 · Q76513
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1895· 1 entry
Died 1895-05-05.
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1878· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Swiss National Council (1878–1881).
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1870· 2 entries
With the fall of the Second Empire, French Republic under the Government of National Defense put up a "Commission chargée de réunir, classer et publier les papiers saisis aux Tuileries" ("Commission responsible for colle
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Career landmark: Member of the Swiss Council of States (1870–1871).
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1860· 1 entry
Herr Vogt, to publicize his views
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1859· 3 entries
Il lui est remis, en août 1859, 40,000 fr." ("Vogt (?).
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That it should have paid him 40,000 francs in the August of that year (and Vogt just happened to be in Paris at the time)
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And then—is there any other Vogt who could have rendered such services to the Bonapartist government in 1859 that it should have paid him 40,000 francs in the August of that year (and Vogt just happened to be in Paris at the time)?
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1856· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Swiss Council of States (1856–1861).
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1847· 1 entry
Became professor of zoology at the University of Giessen, and in 1852 professor of geology and afterwards also of zoology at the University of Geneva
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1842· 1 entry
During his time with Louis Agassiz, he discovered the mechanism of apoptosis, the programmed cell death, while studying the development of the tadpole of the midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans)
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1817· 1 entry
Born 1817-07-05.
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