Peter Ester (5 June 1953 – 11 December 2022) was a Dutch sociologist and

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. As a member of the Christian Union he was a member of the

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from 7 June 2011 until his death. He focused on matters of

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agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

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and

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and Kingdom relations. Ester studied sociology at

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

and got

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in economics at

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist ...

. Among others he worked at Vrije Universiteit (Free University Amsterdam),

Tilburg University Tilburg University is a public university, public research university specializing in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, law, business sciences, theology and humanities, located in Tilburg in the southern part of the Netherlands. Tilb ...

and Utrecht University. Ester was married and a member of the

Protestant Church in the Netherlands The Protestant Church in the Netherlands ( nl, de Protestantse Kerk in Nederland, abbreviated PKN) is the largest Protestant denomination in the Netherlands, being both Calvinist and Lutheran. It was founded on 1 May 2004 as the merger of the ...

(PKN). Ester died after a long illness on 11 December 2022, at the age of 69.

References

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Parlement.com biography

External links

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Senate biography
1953 births 2022 deaths Christian Union (Netherlands) politicians 21st-century Dutch politicians Dutch sociologists Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni Members of the Senate (Netherlands) Politicians from Utrecht (city) Protestant Church Christians from the Netherlands Academic staff of Tilburg University Utrecht University alumni Academic staff of Utrecht University Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam {{Netherlands-politician-stub