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

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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

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. His brother Fredrik Vogt (1892–1970) was an engineer and rector at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. His brother Thorolf Vogt (1888–1958) was a geologist and Arctic explorer. He earned his Cand.oecon. 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

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, Vogt was arrested in 1941. He was sent to the

Grini concentration camp '', '' no, Grini fangeleir'', location=Bærum, Viken, Norway, location map=Viken#Norway, built by=Norway, original use=Constructed as a women's prison, operated by=Nazi Germany, notable inmates= List of Grini prisoners, liberated by=Harry Söderm ...

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

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from 1959. In 1976, he was the first recipient of the

Fritt Ord Award Fritt Ord Award consists of two prizes awarded by the Fritt Ord Foundation (''Stiftelsen Fritt Ord''). Two prizes are awarded in support of freedom of speech and freedom of expression; the Fritt Ord Award ( no, Fritt Ords pris) and the Fritt Or ...

(''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