Albrecht Ernst Rudolf Goetze (January 11, 1897 – August 15, 1971) was a German-American Hittitologist.
[1] Goetze was Professor of Semitic languages at the University of Marburg when the Nazi regime came to power in 1933.
He was made Sterling Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature in 1956 and retired to emeritus status in 1965.
[1] 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.
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).