Geert Ludzer Mak (born 4 december 1946 in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland) is a Dutch journalist and historian. In the 1980s he worked as parliamentary assistant for the leftwing Pacifist Socialist Party. He used the village Jorwert in Friesland as the hook for his book "Jorwerd: The Death of the Village in late 20th Century Europe" (ISBN 1-86046-803-9) - though the Dutch title "Hoe God verdween uit Jorwerd" translates as 'How God disappeared from Jorwerd'. Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Geert Mak. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Mak