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Albrecht Goetze (1897 – 1971) was a German-American Hittitologist.Goetze was Professor of Semitic languages at the University of Marburg when the Nazi regime came to power in 1933. It was through the initiative of Edgar H. Sturtevant that Goetze was invited to Yale University in 1934 a move that was to prove momentous for the advancement of Assyrology and Hittology at Yale. He retired there to emeritus status in 1965.