RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
Vivés Y Tuto Vogtherr
Kerk in de achstiende Eww, viii. 122 sqq., 12 parts, Utrecht,
1797-1811; M. Goebel, Geschichte des christlichen Lebens
in der rheinisch-westphalischen ... Kirche, vol. ii., 3
vols., Coblenz, 1849-60; A.C. Duker, Schoolgezag en eigen
Onderzoek, Leyden, 1861; idem, Gisbertus Voetius, 2 vols.,
ib. 1897-1907, new ed., 1910; G. H. Lamers, in Stemmen
voor Waarheid in Vrede, 1879, i. 607-624.
VOGEL, fd’gel, KARL ALBRECHT VON: German Lutheran; b. at Dresden Mar. 10, 1822; d. at Vienna Sept. 11, 1890. Completing his education at Leipsic in 1844, he taught for two years at Dresden, and then studied for a semester at Berlin, after which he returned to Dresden, teaching there for another two years, besides being tutor to Prince Theodore of Thurn and Taxis; he studied again at Jena in 1848, and a final year at Berlin, becoming in 1850 privat-docent at Jena. Four years later appeared his chief work, Ratherius von Verona und das zehnte Jahrhundert (2 vols., Jena, 1854), which gained him in 1856 the appointment of associate professor, when he lectured on church history and on the New Testament; in 1861 he became professor of New-Testament exegesis in the Protestant theological faculty at Vienna, where, however, relations were less satisfactory than he had hoped. As a delegate of the faculty he was present at the jubilee of the University of Bonn in 1868, and in 1871 and 1877 he attended the general synods, and was otherwise active in church work. In 1871 he was dean of his faculty, and in his closing years (1887-90) was president of the board of examiners for Protestant theological candidates.
Vogel found his chief delight in works of practical piety. For a time he was interested in the thankless task of Jewish missions in Vienna, and after 1883 was active in conducting a Sunday-school founded by his wife at their home. He was also chairman for a time of the Lower Austrian section of the Gustavus Adolphus association, and established the women’s branch of this organization, i7troducing deaconesses into the Austrian capital. Besides the work already mentioned, and a collection of sermons (Weimar, 1859), mention may be made of his Peter Damiani (Gotha, 1856); Der Kaiser Diokletian (1857); and Beitrdge zur Herstellung der alten lateinischen Bibeliibersetzung (1868).
(Gnora LoEscHE.) BisuiocrapHy: J. Giinther, Lebensskizzen der Professoren der Universitit Jena, p. 46, Jena, 1858; the funeral ora~ tion by A. Formey, Vienna, 1890; Hvangelische Kirchenzettung fiir Oesterretch, 1890, pp. 312-313; ADB, xl. 94.
VOGTHERR, fodt’har, GEORG: German Reformer; b. at Hall (85 m. n.e. of Stuttgart) Mar. 11, 1487; d. at Feuchtwangen (26 m. e. of Hall) Jan. 18, 1539. In 1517 he became vicar at the collegiate church in Feuchtwangen, where he was the only one of the staff who dared to remain when the Peasants’ War raged in the vicinity of the city in 1525. In the following year he was deprived of his benefices for his maintenance of Protestant teachings, and was forced to support himself by manual labor and as a notary. When, in 1528, Margrave George the Pious introduced Protestantism in his principalities of Brandenburg, Ansbach, and Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Vogtherr was appointed to the collegiate staff in Feuchtwangen, where he became municipal pastor and superintendent in 1535.
(F. VoaTHERR.)
Vogtherr Volney
THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG
Brstiograpuy: C. F. Jacobi, Geschichte der Stadt und des .. . Stifts Feuchtwangen, Nuremberg, 1833; A. Steichele, Das Bistum Augsburg, iii. 381 sqq., Augsburg, 1872; K. Schornbaum, Stellung des Markgrafen Kasimir von Brandenburg zur reformatorischen Bewegung, passim, Nuremberg, 1900; F. Vogtherr, Geschichte der Familie Vogtherr, pp. 23-43, Ansbach, 1908.
VOGTHERR, HEINRICH: Younger brother of the preceding and one of the first artists to devote his talents to the Reformation; b. at Hall (35 m. n.e. of Stuttgart) in 1490; d. at Vienna in 1556. By 1522 he was an artist at Wimpfen on the Neckar, where he published, under the pseudonym of Henricus Satrapitanus Pictor, two devotional Protestant tracts in 1523 and a pamphlet in 1524. In 1525 he removed to Strasburg, and by 1527 had written five hymns which enjoyed wide and continued popularity (reprinted by P. Wackernagel, Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes, iii. 504-509, Leipsic, 1870). After 1527 he devoted himself to art, especially religious and ecclesiastical woodcuts. To him are doubtless to be ascribed the pictures in J. B. Levit’s edition of the New Testament (Strasburg, 1527) and in Luther’s version of the Old Testament published at Strasburg and Durlach in 1529-32. His ** Redeemer”’ and the woodcut ‘“ Temptation of the feeble-minded ”’ have also been preserved. His most important production was his purely secular Kunstbichlein, written in collaboration with his son of the same name (1538). Vogtherr in 1539 resumed his poetic activity with a Christliches Lossbuch nach ordnung eines Alfabets. Being not only an artist and poet, but also a skilful oculist, Vogtherr was called to the court of Charles V. at Vienna in 1550 as court painter and court oculist. These positions he retained until his death.