Jan van der Graaf

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Jan van der Graaf (12 January 1937 – 14 October 2022) was a Dutch church administrator and engineer. He served as General Secretary of the Reformed Association in the Dutch Reformed Church from 1973 to 2000. He wrote several books and was the chief editor of the association’s magazine De Waarheidsvriend, and he was associated with the Evangelische Omroep. In his youth he belonged to the Reformed Congregations. Although he did not study theology and instead studied chemical technology at Delft University of Technology, and later taught, he became a leading voice for the Gereformeerde Bond. He received an honorary doctorate from the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary in 1994. He died in Huizen in 2022 at the age of 85. His brother-in-law is Bas Plaisier, former Secretary General of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.