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]