On Tuesday, June 20th, the department of political science learned of the death of Professor Gottfried Dietze, a member of the faculty at Johns Hopkins University since 1954. Dietze was born in 1922 in Homburg, Germany, and studied under Carl Friedrich at Harvard University and Alpheus Mason at Princeton University. His most widely read publication was The Federalist, originally published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1960. Dietze died at his home in Washington, D.C.