Athanasius Treweek
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Athanasius Pryor Treweek was an Australian academic, linguist and code-breaker.
Treweek's father Walter Henry Treweek came to Australia in the mid 1890s. After attending St Ignatius' College, Riverview, where he was dux in 1928, he won the 1932 Cooper Scholarship for first place in Latin and Greek examinations conducted by the University of Sydney, eventually going on to become a Professor of Classics at that very same institution.
After meeting his wife Hazel in 1937, in anticipation of war, he had taught himself to read Japanese[1][2]. Following its outbreak, he was seconded from the Australian Army to the American Sixth Fleet, where he was part of a team in Melbourne instrumental in breaking Japanese naval codes[3][4][5].
[edit] References
- ^ Roberts, Alan. "All the world a stage for teacher and student: Hazel Treweek, Teacher, 1919-2005", The Sydney Morning Herald, (retrieved 11 June 2006).
- ^ Roberts, Alan. "All the world a stage for teacher and student: Hazel Treweek, Teacher, 1919-2005 (Different URL in case above goes out of date", The Sydney Morning Herald, (retrieved 11 June 2006).
- ^ North, Richard. "Master codebreakers", University of Sydney Gazette, (retrieved 06 June 2006).
- ^ Mack, John. "Academe and the Military", Website, 2002 (retrieved 06 June 2006).
- ^ Donovan, Peter. "Sydney University, T.G. Room And Codebreaking In WW II", Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 2002 (retrieved 06 June 2006).
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