- Albrecht Goetze
Albrecht Goetze (1897-1971) was a German-American
Hittitologist .Goetze was Professor of
Semitic language s at theUniversity of Marburg when the Nazi regime came to power in 1933. It was through the initiative ofEdgar H. Sturtevant that Goetze was invited toYale University in 1934, a move that was to prove momentous for the advancement ofAssyrology and Hittology at Yale. He retired there to emeritus status in 1965.Goetze's combined training in Indo-European and Semitic linguistics placed him into a peculiarly advantageous position to tackle the emerging field of Hittite studies at the end of World War I. His contributions to that field are numerous and most reliably commented on in Finkelstein's 1972 bibliography.
With Sturtevant, he laid the foundations to what later became the Goetze-Wittmann law (spirantization of palatal stops before "u" as the focal origin for the diffusion of the
Centum-Satem isogloss ). The diffusion hypothesis of the Satem features has the merit to motivate the existence of marginal Satem features in Greek, Albanian and Tocharian and of marginal Kentum features in Armenian.Bibliography
*Finkelstein, Jacob J. (1972). "Albrecht Goetze, 1897-1971." "Journal of the American Oriental Society" 92:2.197-203.
*Goetze, Albrecht (1954). Review of: Johannes Friedrich, "Hethitisches Wörterbuch" (Heidelberg: Winter). "Language" 30.401-405. [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-8507(195407%2F09)30%3A3%3C401%3AHWKKSD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J]
*Goetze, Albrecht (1957). "Kleinasien". Munich.
*Goetze, Albrecht (1974). "Bibliography of Albrecht Goetze (1897-1971)." "Journal of cuneiform studies" 26.2-15.
*Goetze, Albrecht & Edgar H. Sturtevant (1938). "The Hittite Ritual of Tunnawi". New Haven: American Oriental Society.
*cite journal | author=Wittmann, Henri | title=The development of K in Hittite
journal=Glossa|volume=3|pages=22–26|year=1969 [http://homepage.mac.com/noula/ling/1969c-hittiteK.pdf]ee also
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Hittite language
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