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Marie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch

Marie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch

Date
29 Jun 1998
Updated
30 Sep 2019
Marie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch

Marie Vogts was a botanist who specialised in the Protea plant. She obtained a PhD in 1971 with a thesis on autecology and a variation of the King Protea (Protea Cynaroides). She did extensive research on the Proteas in the Paarl Mountain Garden in her days as a lecturer at the Paarl Teachers’ College. Vogts moved to Pretoria after meeting her husband, Bernard Vogts.  In her years in Gauteng, she pioneered Protea growing in the province. After her husband’s death, Vogts and her son moved to Betty’s Bay where she established the experimental protea farm. The farm was later relocated to Tygerhoek . She moved to Stellenbosch where she died on 29 June 1998.

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  1. 01Stellenbosch Writers Marie Vogts[online] Available at: www.stellenboschwriters.com[Accessed on 20 June 2012]

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South African History Online. (2012, June 20). Marie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0086264

South African History Online (2012) 'Marie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch', South African History Online, 20 June. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0086264 (Accessed: 21 July 2026).

South African History Online, Marie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0086264, (accessed 21 July 2026).

"Marie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch." South African History Online, 20 June 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0086264. Accessed 21 July 2026.

South African History Online. "Marie Vogts, botanist and pioneer of the Protea industry, dies in Stellenbosch." South African History Online. June 20, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0086264.

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