Albrecht Goetze

Albrecht Götze ( Albrecht Goetze, born January 11, 1897 in Leipzig, † August 15 1971 in Schloss Elmau near Garmisch -Partenkirchen ) was a German orientalist.

Life

Idol grew up in Darmstadt. He took part in the First World War and was wounded three times. In 1918 he began the study of linguistics in Berlin and Heidelberg, the Heidelberg he graduated with a doctorate on " Relative chronology of phonetic phenomena in Italic " 1921. Then he was in Heidelberg assistant at the Oriental and the Linguistics Seminar. In 1922 he qualified as a professor there. He was then a lecturer and from 1927 ao. Professor until he was appointed in 1930 as Professor of Semitic Languages ​​and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Marburg. He worked at this time, especially with the Hittites.

Before the "seizure of power " idol had distributed leaflets against the Nazis in 1933, he was placed under observation and discharged in November 1933 according to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. In the winter semester 1933/34, he was on leave under payment of remuneration to scientific work abroad and held teaching in Copenhagen and Oslo, while his family remained in Germany.

In 1934 he was invited by Edgar H. Sturtevant at Yale University. Then he decided, according to Finkelstein's obituary, never to publish again in German. He could bring his family to America in 1940 and took American citizenship to. At Yale, he was first to 1936 "Visiting Professor " until he took over the William Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian literature. In 1956 he received the Sterling Professorship, the highest academic honor that can award Yale. In 1947 he became head of the Baghdad division of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Goetze 1965 emeritus.

One of his areas of interest was the history of the Hittites. After emigrating, he worked primarily with the Akkadian and Babylonian history.

Writings (selection )

  • Asia Minor to the Hittite. A geographical study, Winter, Heidelberg, 1924
  • The Hittite empire, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1928
  • Asia Minor, CH Beck, Munich, 1933, Handbook of Classical Studies Dept. 3, Part 1, Vol 3, Section 3, Subsection 1 (2nd revised edition 1957 reprint 1974)
  • Hittites, Hurrians and Assyrians, Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Series A: Forelesninger XVII. Oslo 1936
  • Remarks on the Lists from Alalakh IV, in: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 13 (1959 ) pp. 63-64
  • The Kassites and near Eastern Chronology, in: Journal of Cuneiform Studies 18 (1964 ) pp. 97-101
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