[1] Ernst Walter Siegfried Vogt was born and grew up in Duisburg, a dynamic commercial and manufacturing center which at that time (as now) was home to one of the world's largest inland ports.
[1] His student career at Bonn lasted till 1956, during which time the scope of his studies also covered papyrology and language sciences.
[2] Between 1959 and 1967 he was also responsible on a day-to-day basis, as "Schriftleiter", for the contents of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (journal), under the direction of Hans Herter.
[5] In 1967 Vogt accepted an invitation to move to Mannheim where he took a full professorship, and where later, in 1970/71, he became dean of faculty for language and literature sciences.
[2] In 1970 he took charge as "Schriftleiter" at the academic (Classics) journal Gnomon which under his aegis became probably the most influential periodical in the sector.
Between 1980 and 1988 he lectured for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation ("Studienstiftung"), and between 1981 and 1983 as dean of the faculty for language and literature sciences.
[6] In 1997 Vogt received the Praemium Classicum Clavarense (prize) from the Italian Society of Classical Culture.