Friedrich Otto Vogel (6 March 1925, Berlin – 5 August 2006, Heidelberg) was a German human geneticist. Together with Arno Motulsky he established the journal Human Genetics in 1964, of which he remained editor-in-chief for more than 25 years.^[1] He was a member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften.^[2] In 1962, Vogel was named professor of human genetics and founding chair of the Institute of Anthropology and Human Genetics at Heidelberg University.^[3] Vogel became the leading German human geneticist and played a significant role in the rehabilitation of this field after the misuse of genetics by the Nazi regime (1932-1945).^[4]

Selected works

• Vogel, Friedrich (1961). Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Humangenetik (in German). Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-87295-2.
• Fuhrmann, Walter; Vogel, Friedrich (1975). Genetische Familienberatung : ein Leitfaden für Studenten und Ärzte (in German) (2nd ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-540-07486-1.
• Vogel, Friedrich; Motulsky, Arno (1979). Human Genetics: Problems and Approaches. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-09459-8.
• Vogel, Friedrich; Propping, Peter (1981). Ist unser Schicksal mitgeboren? (in German). Berlin: Severin und Siedler. ISBN 3-88680-012-1.

References

External links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Vogel (human geneticist) in the German National Library catalogue