Kurt Treu (15 September 1928 in

Karja Karja is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Leisi Parish. German philologist Kurt Treu Kurt Treu (15 September 1928 in Karja, Saare County, Estonia – 6 J ...

Saare County Saare County ( et, Saare maakond or ''Saaremaa''; la, Oesel; german: Ösel; sv, Ösel) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It consists of Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia, and several smaller islands near it, most notably Muhu, Ruhnu, Abru ...

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

– 6 June 1991 in

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), was a German

classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and ot ...

. He was born the son of a German parson on the island

Saaremaa Saaremaa is the largest island in Estonia, measuring . The main island of Saare County, it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hiiumaa island and west of Muhu island, and belongs to the West Estonian Archipelago. The capital of the island i ...

, the largest island of

. In 1940, because of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, the Treu family was forced to leave their homeland. Kurt Treu studied in a Gymnasium in Hohensalza. AS levels were studied by him after the war. He studied Classical philology at the

University of Jena The University of Jena, officially the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (german: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, abbreviated FSU, shortened form ''Uni Jena''), is a public research university located in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. The un ...

. In 1963 he graduated from the

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...

Works

* ''Griechisch-koptische Bilinguen des Neuen Testaments'', in ''Koptische Studien in der DDR'', edited by the

Institut für Byzantinistik An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...

(Halle, 1965), pp. 95-123. * * ''Neue Neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung'', '' APF'' 18 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 23-38. * ''Drei Berliner Papyri mit nomina sacra'', '' Studia Patristica'' 10, T & U 30 (Berlin, 1970).

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Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der USSR – BB 34 (1973) 300
{{DEFAULTSORT:Treu, Kurt 1928 births 1991 deaths People from Saaremaa Parish Baltic-German people German classical philologists German papyrologists

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