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. 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. In 2003 he became professor of papyrology at Leiden University. He succeeded Pieter Pestman. Worp retired in 2008. Upon his retirement he was not succeeded.

In 1992 he became involved in research on papyrus from the Dakhla Oasis. 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

 * 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.