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He was born London, England, the son of Frederick and Marguerite (Ryan) Ottenheimer, he was educated at the University of Rome, University of Paris, Cambridge University, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Fordham University.
Born in Tarnów, Austria-Hungary (now Poland), he earned his PhD from the University of Rome in 1929, then went to the University of Chicago where he was a professor of Assyriology until his death.
He is educated at Eton and Jesus College, Cambridge (BA 1975, and PhD 1986) and the University of Rome, La Sapienza (Diploma di Perfezionamento, 1981).
In 1986 he was given his first honorary doctorate, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; subsequently, he was given two more, by the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1998 and the University of Liège in 1999.
Completed residencies in Otorhinolaryngology at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" in 1984 (Summa cum Laude) and in Audiological Medicine at the University of Naples in 1989.