Ernst Vogt

Ernst Vogt (6 November 1930 – 9 August 2017) was a German classical philologist. He was a professor at the University of Mannheim (1967–1975) and LMU Munich (1975–1999). Between 2002 and 2014 he served president of the International Thesaurus Commission.

Vogt engaged with the history of literary forms and genres, with Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Roman Empire periods, with the history of how classical literature was delivered and received, and with the history of classical philology. The doctorate was supervised by the polyhistorian Hans Herter, whose research assistant he now became. At least three children resulted from the marriage, and by the time he died Ernst and Monika Vogt were also grandparents.

In 1967, Vogt accepted an invitation to move to the University of Mannheim where he took a full professorship, and where later, in 1970/71, he became dean of faculty for language and literature sciences.

In 1997, Vogt received the Praemium Classicum Clavarense (prize) from the Italian Society of Classical Culture. From that year he was a member of the Scientific Committee at the specialist journal Eikasmós. In 1999, he retired. Nevertheless, from 2000, he was a council member at the Görres Society, and in 2002, he accepted a guest professorship at the University of Naples Federico II.