Kurt Treu (15 September 1928 in Karja,

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– 6 June 1991 in

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), was a German classical philologist. He was born the son of a German parson on the island

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, the largest island of

. In 1940, because of

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, 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

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. In 1963 he graduated from the

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Works

* ''Griechisch-koptische Bilinguen des Neuen Testaments'', in ''Koptische Studien in der DDR'', edited by the Institut für Byzantinistik (Halle, 1965), pp. 95-123. * * ''Neue Neutestamentliche Fragmente der Berliner Papyrussammlung'', '' APF'' 18 (Berlin: 1966), pp. 23-38. * ''Drei Berliner Papyri mit nomina sacra'', ''

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'' 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 People of Baltic German descent German classical philologists German papyrologists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni

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