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 Vang is a former municipality in the old Hedmark county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1992 when it became part of Hamar Municipality. The administrative centre of the municipality was at Fredvang. This si ...

, 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

University of Oslo The University of Oslo (; ) is a public university, public research university located in Oslo, Norway. It is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Europe, oldest university in Norway. Originally named the Royal Frederick Univ ...

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

) and completed his

examen artium Examen artium was the name of the academic certification conferred in Denmark and Norway, qualifying the student for admission to university studies. Examen artium was originally introduced as the entrance exam of the University of Copenhagen in 1 ...

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 Norwegian Geological Survey 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 ...

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 Norwegian Academy of Sciences in 1929. In 1936 he was elected to the

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. He was also award the

Order of St. Olav The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav (; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after King Olav II, known to posterity as St. Olav. Just be ...

. 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