Kari Vogt

Kari Vogt (3 April 1939 – 19 September 2024) was a Norwegian religious historian. She wrote several books, and was a board member of the Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression, and of the Norwegian chapter of PEN International.

Career Vogt graduated in religious studies from the University of Oslo in 1965, with the thesis Urmenneskeskikkelsen i de manikeiske Thomas-salmene, and also studied in Paris. She was appointed at the University of Oslo from 1967.

She received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award for 1996.

Personal life and death Vogt was born in Oslo to physician Erik Theodor Vogt and psychologist Bodil Therese Tandberg, and was a niece of linguist Hans Vogt and electronics engineer Vebjørn Tandberg.

Vogt died on 19 September 2024, at the age of 85.