Education
He studied medicine in Vienna, receiving his doctorate in 1841 with a dissertation titled, De systemate Intermedio vasorum eiusque radicibus.
He studied medicine in Vienna, receiving his doctorate in 1841 with a dissertation titled, De systemate Intermedio vasorum eiusque radicibus.
In Vienna, he was influenced by the work of anatomist Christian Joseph Berres (1796-1844). From 1847 to 1850, he was a professor at the surgical-medical college in Laibach, afterwards teaching classes in Lemberg (1850-1854), Krakow (1854-1861) and Vienna (1861-1878), where he was a professor of anatomy and histology. Voigt is remembered for his anatomical investigations of the hair and skin.
His name is associated with "Voigt"s line", a pigmentary demarcation line that sometimes affects dark-skinned individuals.
lieutenant is described as a dorsoventral line of pigmentation occurring symmetrically and bilaterally for about ten centimeters along the lateral edge of the biceps. The phenomenon is also known as "Futcher"s line".
Voigt was a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.