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'''Pieter verLoren van Themaat''' (16 March 1916 – 4 July 2004) was a Dutch law professor and civil service worker. He was professor of socio-economic law at [[Utrecht University]] between 1967 and 1981. VerLoren van Themaat was [[Advocate general (European Union)|Advocate-General]] of the [[European Court of Justice]] between 1981 and 1986.
==Early life==
VerLoren was born in Rotterdam on 16 March 1916.<ref name=kapteyn>{{cite web|author=[[Paul Joan George Kapteyn|P.J.G. Kapteyn]] |url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/DL/levensberichten/PE00003500.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413140715/https://www.dwc.knaw.nl/DL/levensberichten/PE00003500.pdf |title=Pieter VerLoren van Themaat 16 maart 1916 – 4 juli 2004 |publisher=Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen |date= |archive-date=13 April 2014}}</ref> Shortly after his birth the family moved to [[Nijmegen]], where his mother soon died while VerLoren was only four years old. The family, part Dutch [[VerLoren]] family then once again moved, this time to the newly constructed house Grandpré Molière in the nearby village of [[Berg en Dal (village)|Berg en Dal]].<ref name=kapteyn/> After finishing his secondary education at the [[Gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]] in Nijmegen verLoren wished to become an architect. The [[Great Depression]] however made such an impression on him that he wished to help in making a societal effort in avoiding or tempering future crises. VerLoren thus chose to study law at [[Leiden University]]. He earned his Master of laws degree in 1939. He wished to work on his doctoral thesis on international tax law under the supervision of professor [[Ben Telders]] ([[:nl:Ben Telders|nl]]). During World War II he was nominally working for the Government Agency for Iron and Steel (''Rijksbureau voor IJzer en Staal''), while writing his doctoral dissertation on treaties of the elimination of double tax regimes. On 2 April 1946 he earned his doctorate cum laude from Leiden University under the supervision of [[Eduard Meijers]], as Telders had died shortly before the liberation in [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]].<ref name=kapteyn/> His thesis was titled: ''"Internationaal Belastingrecht –een studie naar aanleiding van literatuur en verdragen over de uitschakeling van dubbele belasting"''. VerLoren then started working for the [[Ministry of Economic Affairs (Netherlands)|Ministry of Economic Affairs]].<ref name=kapteyn/>
==Career==
In 1958 VerLoren moved to Brussels to work for the then recently founded [[European Economic Community]]. He was made Director General of the department of competition. Together with European Commissioner [[Hans von der Groeben]] he worked on Council Regulation 17/62, which served for forty years as an important foundation of the procedural aspects of [[European Union competition law]].<ref name=kapteyn/> In 1967 he returned to the Netherlands and was appointed professor of socio-economic law at [[Utrecht University]], the first professor in this subject area in the Netherlands.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.eui.eu/HAEU/OralHistory/bin/CreaInt.asp?rc=INT744 |title=T744 - Verloren van Themaat, Pieter from The European Commission memories collection |publisher=European University Institute |date= |accessdate=11 April 2014}}</ref> In 1981 he reached the age of retirement.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://profs.library.uu.nl/index.php/profrec/getprofdata/2183/4/4/0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105130223/https://profs.library.uu.nl/index.php/profrec/getprofdata/2183/4/4/0 |title=Prof.mr.dr. P. Verloren van Themaat (1916 - 2004) |language=nl |publisher=Utrecht University |date= |archive-date=5 January 2024}}</ref> In 1982, he was presented with a [[Festschrift|Liber Amicorum]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19532906W/In_orde |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105125612/https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19532906W/In_orde |title=In orde liber amicorum Pieter VerLoren van Themaat aangeboden ter gelegenheid van zijn aftreden als hoogleraar in het sociaal-economisch recht aan de Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht. |language=nl |website=openlibrary.org |date= |archive-date=5 January 2024}}</ref>
As a result of the accession of Greece to the European Communities in 1981 an expansion in the number of Advocates-General at the [[European Court of Justice]] from four to five took place. This new position would rotate among the smaller Member States and it was agreed that it would be first handed to the Netherlands.<ref name=kapteyn/> Although having retired, the Dutch cabinet saw VerLoren as an excellent candidate and he duly became an Advocate-General at the European Court of Justice on 4 June 1981.<ref name=kapteyn/> He served until 13 January 1986.<ref name=kapteyn/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7014/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402221841/https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_7014/ |title=Former members |publisher=European Court of Justice |date= |archive-date=2 April 2014}}</ref>
In 1974 VerLoren was elected a member of the [[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]].<ref name=knaw>{{cite web |url=http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00003500 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923232823/http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/biografie/pmknaw/?pagetype=authorDetail&aId=PE00003500 |title=Pieter Verloren van Themaat (1916 - 2004) |publisher=Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen |date= |archive-date=23 September 2015}}</ref>
==Personal life==
In 1942 he married Marijke Losecaat Vermeer, to whom he was married for over sixty years.<ref name=kapteyn/>
He died on 4 July 2004 in [[Utrecht]].<ref name=kapteyn/>
==Works==
*  P.J.G. Kapteyn & P. VerLoren van Themaat, ''Introduction to the Law of the European Communities'' (1972, 1998, 1989); subsequently ' 'Introduction to the Law of the European Union and the European Communities' ' (2008)
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