Dietrich Opitz (13 January 1901 – 2 January 1992) was a German

assyriologist Assyriology (from Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , ''-logia'') is the archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (a region that encompassed what is now modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southea ...

and colleague of

Bruno Meissner Bruno Meissner also Bruno Meißner (25 April 1868, in Graudenz – 13 March 1947, in Zeuthen) was a German assyriologist.Erika Bleibtreu, Johannes Boese and Barthel Hrouda: ''Orientalistenleben. Kurzbiografien von E. F. Weidner, B. Meissner, E ...

. He was the first to propose that

Tell el Fakhariya Tell Fekheriye ( ar, تل الفخيرية) (often spelled as Tell el-Fakhariya or Tell Fecheriye, among other variants) is an ancient site in the Khabur River basin in the Al Hasakah Governorate of northern Syria. It is securely identified a ...

was the location of Wassuganni, capital of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni from c.1500 BC. though this is now considered unlikely.Edward Lipiński ''The Aramaeans: their ancient history, culture, religion'' 2000 Page 120 "This proposal was made first by D. Opitz" Opitz was born in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

and died, aged 90, in

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream o ...

Works

* ''Eine Form der Ackerbestellung in Assyrien'' ZA 37 nF 3 (1927): * ''Ein Altar des Konigs Tukulti-Ninurta 1. von Assyrien,'' AfO, 7 (1931), 83-90. * ''Der geschlachtete Gott'' * ''Das Problem des Burney-Reliefs'' German Assyriologists 1901 births 1992 deaths German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-historian-stub