Klaas Anthony Worp (born 23 August 1943) is a Dutch

papyrologist Papyrology is the study of manuscripts of ancient literature, correspondence, legal archives, etc., preserved on portable media from antiquity, the most common form of which is papyrus, the principal writing material in the ancient civilizations ...

. He was professor of papyrology at Leiden University between 2003 and 2008.

Biography

Worp was born on 23 August 1943 in

Arnhem Arnhem ( or ; german: Arnheim; South Guelderish: ''Èrnem'') is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands about 55 km south east of Utrecht. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland, located on both ban ...

. He obtained his PhD in Amsterdam in 1972 with a thesis titled: "''Einige Wiener Papyri''". Between 1972 and 2005 he was assistant and later associate professor of papyrology at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

. In 2003 he became professor of papyrology at Leiden University. He succeeded . Worp retired in 2008. Upon his retirement he was not succeeded. In 1992 he became involved in research on papyrus from the

Dakhla Oasis Dakhla Oasis (Egyptian Arabic: , , "''the inner oasis"''), is one of the seven oases of Egypt's Western Desert. Dakhla Oasis lies in the New Valley Governorate, 350 km (220 mi.) from the Nile and between the oases of Farafra and Khar ...

. Worp also performed research on the collection of Ramón Roca Puig, rediscovering several words of

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

. In 2009 he published work with two others on the oldest text of the Netherlands, which dealth with a loan from Roman times. Worp was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. In 2008 he received a ''

Festschrift In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the h ...

''.

Works

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

References

External links

Profile at Leiden University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Worp, Klaas 1943 births Living people Academic staff of Leiden University Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Papyrologists People from Arnhem