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Andrew Princz

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Andrew Princz (October 28, 1970 – June 24, 2011) was a journalist, editor, and publisher of ontheglobe.com. He has done reporting from around the globe, visiting almost sixty countries conducting tourism promotion and country awareness projects, spearheading the concept of cultural navigation, a form of modern-day global exploration whereby the traveler takes an empathetic approach to the cultures that he comes across. He has contributed to CNN Traveller,[1] The Wall Street Journal,[2] The Toronto Star, CBC.ca,[3] The Montreal Gazette,[4] the Chinese monthly Cultural Geographic, The Art Newspaper, and ARTnews. Princz was founding editor of the Budapest-based monthly DT - Diplomacy and Trade.

He was the holder of a BFA in Art History from Concordia University. Princz had contributed to several of Frommer's Eastern European guidebooks, and was the lead author of Bridging the Divide: Canadian and Hungarian Stories of the 1956 Revolution,[5] a book about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

On June 24, 2011, Princz died from a heart attack while in Quito, Ecuador.[6]

Works

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  • Frommer's Budapest & the Best of Hungary ISBN 978-0-471-77819-6 (John Wiley & Sons; 2006)
  • Frommer's Eastern Europe ISBN 978-0-470-08958-3 (John Wiley & Sons; 2007)
  • Frommer's Europe by Rail ISBN 978-0-7645-9951-4 (John Wiley & Sons; 2006)
  • Frommer's Europe ISBN 978-0-471-92265-0 (John Wiley & Sons; 2006)
  • Bridging the Divide: Canadian and Hungarian Stories of the 1956 Revolution ISBN 978-0-9781612-0-0 (ontheglobe.com, 2006)

References

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  1. ^ CNN Traveller. "Nigeria: Put your oar in", May-Jun, 2006, p. 29
  2. ^ Princz, Andrew (8 Mar 2001). "In Hungary, a Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art". Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones. pp. A20. Retrieved 2009-01-03. [dead link]
  3. ^ Princz, Andrew (13 June 2008). "A quest to save Iraq's looted treasures". cbc.ca. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
  4. ^ Montreal Gazette. "Return to a Roma village". October 27, 2007
  5. ^ Lejtenyi, Patrick. "Sorting out 56". The Montreal Mirror. Archived from the original on 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2006-11-22.
  6. ^ "Remembering Andrew Princz". cbc.ca. CBC. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
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