Researching Hans Vogt
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 175 people with the Vogt surname? In that year Vogt was ranked number 3404 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Hans means "form of JOHN - God is gracious" and is of Scandinavian origin.
Records of Hans Vogt on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Hans Vogt and the Vogt Genealogy
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Vogt Forums
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Miscellaneous Vogt Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Hans Vogt. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
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Hans Vogt (linguist)
Hans Kamstrup Vogt (1 June 1903 – 25 September 1986) was a Norwegian linguist who specialized in the Caucasian languages, especially Georgian. He also did significant early work on the Kalispel language and produced an interesting dictionary of the Ubykh language.
He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1937, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters from 1957 and of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature from 1971. He was an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America, the Societas Caucasologica Europaea and the Georgian Academy of Languages. He held an honorary degree at the Tbilisi State University and won the Nansen Medal in 1967. He was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav (1966) and Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Politically he was a member of the organization Mot Dag from 1926 to 1936.
Source: Hans Vogt (linguist), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Vogt
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