Willem Witteveen
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Witteveen in January 2014
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| Member of the Senate | |
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In office 15 January 2013 – 17 July 2014 |
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In office 8 June 1999 – 12 June 2007 |
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Willem Johannes Witteveen 5 May 1952 Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 17 July 2014 (aged 62) near Hrabove, Ukraine |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Political party | Labour Party (1994–2014) |
| Spouse(s) | Lidwien Heerkens (m. 1978; d. 2014) |
| Children | Marit (d. 2014) Freek |
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| Residence | Breda, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | Leiden University |
| Occupation | Politician, professor, author |
| Religion | Universal Sufism |
Willem Johannes Witteveen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm joˈɦɑnəs ˈʋɪtəˌveːn]; 5 May 1952 – 17 July 2014) was a Dutch legal scholar, politician, and author. He was a law professor at Tilburg University (1990–2014) and a Member of the Senate for the Labour Party (1999–2007; 2013–2014). He was also the author of several books about law and politics. Witteveen was killed on 17 July 2014 when the flight he was travelling on, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was shot down over eastern Ukraine.
Willem Johannes Witteveen was born on 5 May 1952 in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
He was the son of liberal politician Johan Witteveen and Liesbeth de Vries Feijens. He was also the great-grandson of social-democratic politician Floor Wibaut. He had three brothers and a sister.
He went to a public primary Montessori school in Rotterdam and to the public secondary school Rijnlands Lyceum (1964–1970) in Wassenaar. He studied Dutch law at Leiden University (1970–1978) in Leiden.
From 1979 to 1989, he worked as researcher of constitutional law at Leiden University. In 1988, he received his PhD cum laude with the dissertation De retoriek in het recht (The rhetorics of law). From 1990 to his death, he was a law professor at Tilburg University. His fields of expertise were trias politica, legislation, rhetoric, legal theory, and political theory.
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