Klaas Worp

Klaas Anthony Worp (born 23 August 1943) is a Dutch papyrologist. He was professor of papyrology at Leiden University between 2003 and 2008.

Biography

Worp was born on 23 August 1943 in Arnhem.[1] He obtained his PhD in Amsterdam in 1972 with a thesis titled: "Einige Wiener Papyri".[1] Between 1972 and 2005 he was assistant and later associate professor of papyrology at the University of Amsterdam.[2] In 2003 he became professor of papyrology at Leiden University.[1] He succeeded Pieter Pestman [nl].[3] Worp retired in 2008.[2] Upon his retirement he was not succeeded.[3]

In 1992 he became involved in research on papyrus from the Dakhla Oasis.[4] Worp also performed research on the collection of Ramón Roca Puig, rediscovering several words of Ancient Greek.[5] In 2009 he published work with two others on the oldest text of the Netherlands, which dealth with a loan from Roman times.[6]

Worp was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.[7] In 2008 he received a Festschrift.[8]

Works

  • The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt, Leiden, 2004, with R.S. Bagnall[9]
  • Greek Ostraka from Kellis (O.Kellis) (= Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 13), Oxford, 2004[9]
  • A history of papyrology in Holland (1830–2015), 2020.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Klaas Anthony Worp (Klaas)" (in Dutch). Leiden University. Archived from the original on 25 June 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Klaas Worp". Leidden University. Archived from the original on 5 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Levensbericht Pieter Willem Pestman" (PDF) (in Dutch). Digital Web Centre for the History of Science in the Low Countries. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 June 2023.
  4. ^ Toebosch, Theo (14 February 1998). "'ONZINNIG BERICHT OVER VONDST VAN PAPYRUSROLLEN'". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  5. ^ Toebosch, Theo (25 February 2006). "Grieks snelschrift". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  6. ^ "De oudste tekst van Nederland". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). 24 April 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  7. ^ "Klaas Worp" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 5 January 2024.
  8. ^ Hoogendijk, F.A.J.; Muhs, B.P.; Bakker, M.J.; Worp, K.A. (2008). Sixty-five Papyrological Texts: Presented to Klaas A. Worp on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday ; (P. L. Bat. 33). Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava / Papyrologica Lugduno-Batava. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-16688-2. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  9. ^ a b "Klaas A. Worp". Death on the Nile. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  10. ^ "A history of papyrology in Holland (1830–2015)" (PDF). Accademia Fiorentina di papirlogia e di studi sul mondo antinco. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2022.