Haarlems Dagblad [SEP] country of origin
Haarlems Dagblad
The Haarlems Dagblad is a regional newspaper in Haarlem, Netherlands. It makes claim to being the newspaper with the oldest publishing history in the world, even if this claim is based on its (forced) merger with another title.
"Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant".
This earlier publication was published by Abraham Casteleyn and his wife Margaretha van Bancken, beginning in 1656 under the title "Weeckelycke Courante van Europa" ("Weekly Newspaper of Europe"). In 1664, when the authorities took steps to protect
denominational, a conflict settled when editor-in-chief Erwin Baumgarten and later his brother left (in 1946 and 1948, resp.), leaving the paper in the hands of editors who had not been involved with its Roman Catholic wartime origin. Cees Meijer became editor-in-chief in 1951, and led the paper until 1979. The paper was owned and printed by Stuurman of Zaandam until 1968, when it was taken over by Damiate, also publishers of the "Haarlems Dagblad"; some of the editorial