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principle to the persons he criticized (Vogt 1996). He also developed his thoughts
about his personal and professional life, highlighting his quest for interdisciplinarity.
Jean Vogt passed away on 5 June 2005 in Strasbourg, after several months of
illness. Almost until the last day, he continued to visit the Archives and the Bib-
liotheque and to work on the manuscripts of several articles he was preparing. He
leaves behind a brother, Henri, two daughters and several grand-children.
A citizen of the world, Jean Vogt was at the same time Alsatian: he had the gift
of balancing himself between being a specialist of the very minute details of the
history of small villages of Northern Alsace (Outre-Foret), and a connoisseur of
many different countries and cultures worldwide. Only those who had the chance to
meet him could appreciate his great human qualities, a mixture of honesty, modesty,
great intelligence, and wittiness.
Acknowledgments We are very grateful to Henri Vogt - Jean Vogt's brother, - Jean-Michel
Boehler, and Pierre Louis Vincent for their help in the preparation of this biography. We would
also like to thank Andrea Rovida for taking care of the figures.
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