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Wolfgang Vogt

1883–1916

A gifted young German mathematician, he built an academic career in Heidelberg and Karlsruhe before dying at just 33. His surviving work points to a sharp geometric imagination and a life cut dramatically short.

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Synthetische Theorie der Cliffordschen Parallelen und der Linearen Linienörter des Elliptischen Raumes

Synthetische Theorie der Cliffordschen Parallelen und der Linearen Linienörter des Elliptischen Raumes

by Wolfgang Vogt

About the author

Wolfgang Wilhelm Vogt was a German mathematician born in 1883 and died in 1916. The Heidelberg scholars' lexicon identifies him as Wolfgang Wilhelm Vogt and places him in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at Heidelberg from 1914 to 1916, while the Mathematics Genealogy Project records that he earned a Dr. phil. at the University of Breslau in 1906 under Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm.

His best-known surviving book is Synthetische Theorie der Cliffordschen Parallelen und der linearen Linienörter des elliptischen Raumes, published by B. G. Teubner in 1909. The title page of that work describes him as a Privatdozent at the Technical University in Karlsruhe, showing that he was already teaching and publishing advanced work in geometry early in his career.

The basic outlines of his life are clear, but detailed biographical information appears to be scarce online. Even so, the record that remains suggests a promising scholar of geometry whose career ended very early, leaving behind a small but notable body of mathematical work.