Klaas Worp

Klaas Anthony Worp (1943 - 2026) was 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. He obtained his PhD in Amsterdam in 1972 with a thesis titled: Einige Wiener Papyri. In 2003 he became professor of papyrology at Leiden University. Worp retired in 2008. Worp also performed research on the collection of Ramón Roca Puig, rediscovering several words of Ancient Greek. 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.

Works Einige Wiener Papyri (P.Vind.Worp), Amsterdam, 1972. Indices zu den Papyri bibliothecae universitatis Gissensis, Giessen, 1975. Fünfunddreissig Wiener Papyri (P.Vind.Tand.), Zutphen, 1976, with P.J. Sijpesteijn. Ostraka in Amsterdam Collections (O.Amst.), Zutphen, 1976, with R.S. Bagnall and P.J. Sijpesteijn. Zwei Landlisten aus dem Hermupolites (P.Herm.Landl.), Zutphen, 1978, with P.J. Sijpesteijn. Regnal Formulas in Byzantine Egypt (BASP Suppl. 2), Atlanta, 1979, with R.S. Bagnall. Die Amsterdamer Papyri (P.Amst. I), Zutphen, 1980, with R.P. Salomons, P.J. Sijpesteijn. Greek Ostraka: a Catalogue of the Greek Ostraka in the National Museum of Antiquities at Leiden, with a Chapter on the Greek Ostraka in the Papyrological Institute of the University of Leiden (O.Leid.), Zutphen, 1980, with R.S. Bagnall and P.J. Sijpesteijn. Das Aurelia Charite Archiv (P.Charite), Zutphen, 1981. Corpus Papyrorum Raineri VIII: Griechische Texte V, Wien, 1983, with P.J. Sijpesteijn. Ostraka greci del Museo Egizio del Cairo (O.Cair.), Florence, 1986, with C. Gallazzi and R. Pintaudi. Notarsunterschriften im Byzantinischen Ägypten (MPER N. S. XVI), Wien, 1986, with J.M. Diethart. Columbia Papyri VIII (P.Col. VIII), Atlanta 1990, with R.S. Bagnall and T.T. Renner. Corpus Papyrorum Raineri XVIIA: Griechische Texte XIIA: Die Archive der Aurelii Adelphios und Asklepiades, Wien, 1991. Checklist of Editions of Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets, 4th ed. (BASP Suppl. 7), Atlanta, 1992, with J.F. Oates, R.S. Bagnall and W.H. Willis. Eine Steuerliste aus Pheretnuis (P.Pher.), Amsterdam, 1993, with P.J. Sijpesteijn. Greek Papyri from Kellis I (P.Kellis I), Oxford, 1995. Ein frühbyzantinisches Szenario für die Amtswechslung in der Sitonie (P.Pommersf.), Munich, 1996, with A.J.B. Sirks and P.J. Sijpesteijn. The Kellis Isocrates Codex (P.Kellis III) (Dakhleh Oasis Project Monograph 3), Oxford, 1997, with A. Rijksbaron. Checklist of Editions of Greek and Latin Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets, 5th ed. (BASP Suppl. 9), Atlanta, 2001, with J.F. Oates, R.S. Bagnall et al. 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