Alfred Hermann Friedrich Vagts (December 1, 1892 in Basbeck – June 19, 1986 in Cambridge, MA) was a German poet and historian.
Vagts served in the First World War as a captain in the German military and was awarded the Iron Cross first class.
In this role Vagts visited the Yale university in the United States where he worked with American historian Charles A.
Between 1938 and 1939, he was a visiting professor at Harvard University before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, where he remained until 1942.
[4] Vagts collaborated with Hajo Holborn, Eckhart Kehr, George W. Hallgarten, Fritz T. Epstein and Hans Rosenberg.