Jan van der Graaf | |
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Born |
Ridderkerk, Netherlands | 12 January 1937
Died | 14 October 2022
Huizen, Netherlands | (aged 85)
Occupation(s) | Church administrator, editor, author |
Known for | General Secretary of the Reformed Association in the Dutch Reformed Church |
Relatives | Christian minister Bas Plaisier |
Jan van der Graaf (12 January 1937 – 14 October 2022) was a Dutch church administrator and engineer. [1] He was General Secretary of the Reformed Association in the Dutch Reformed Church between 1973 and 2000. [2] Van der Graaf also wrote several books, [3] was chief editor of the Reformed Association's magazine De Waarheidsvriend and associated with the Evangelische Omroep. [4]
For the most part of his youth he was a member of the Reformed Congregations. Although Van der Graaf didn't study theology - instead, he studied chemical technology at Delft University of Technology [5] and did some teaching afterwards - he acted like a theologian. He was an iconic personality in representing the Reformed Association (Gereformeerde Bond). [6]
Van der Graaf was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary in 1994. [7]
Van der Graaf died in Huizen on 14 October 2022, at the age of 85. [2]
Former Secretary General of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands Bas Plaisier (born 1946) is his brother-in-law. [8]
Books of Jan van der Graaf:
Jan van der Graaf | |
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Born |
Ridderkerk, Netherlands | 12 January 1937
Died | 14 October 2022
Huizen, Netherlands | (aged 85)
Occupation(s) | Church administrator, editor, author |
Known for | General Secretary of the Reformed Association in the Dutch Reformed Church |
Relatives | Christian minister Bas Plaisier |
Jan van der Graaf (12 January 1937 – 14 October 2022) was a Dutch church administrator and engineer. [1] He was General Secretary of the Reformed Association in the Dutch Reformed Church between 1973 and 2000. [2] Van der Graaf also wrote several books, [3] was chief editor of the Reformed Association's magazine De Waarheidsvriend and associated with the Evangelische Omroep. [4]
For the most part of his youth he was a member of the Reformed Congregations. Although Van der Graaf didn't study theology - instead, he studied chemical technology at Delft University of Technology [5] and did some teaching afterwards - he acted like a theologian. He was an iconic personality in representing the Reformed Association (Gereformeerde Bond). [6]
Van der Graaf was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary in 1994. [7]
Van der Graaf died in Huizen on 14 October 2022, at the age of 85. [2]
Former Secretary General of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands Bas Plaisier (born 1946) is his brother-in-law. [8]
Books of Jan van der Graaf: