About Jan Prins
Lived 1944 – 2008 (aged 63). Jan Prins was a Dutch journalist.
Jan Prins (14 May 1944 in Zaandam – 7 March 2008 in The Hague) was a Dutch newspaper editor and journalist.
Prins, born in Zaanstad into a communist family (his uncle was Marcus Bakker), began his journalistic career in the early 1960 as an apprentice reporter at De Zaanlander, after which he went on to work for Sijthoff in The Hague, and to become editor-in-chief of the Rotterdams Dagblad.
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Who was Jan Prins?
Dutch journalist (1944–2008)
When was Jan Prins born?
Jan Prins was born on 14 May 1944.
When did Jan Prins die?
Jan Prins died on 7 March 2008.
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Jan Prins was a journalist.
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Jan Prins was Dutch.
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