Draft:Pieter Daens

Petrus Frans Daens (10 June 1842 – 26 March 1918) was a Belgian publisher and politician for the Christian People's Party, as well as a leading figure in early Belgian Christian democracy. He was the younger brother of Adolf Daens.

Biography
Petrus (nicknamed Pieter) Daens was born into a Flemish Catholic family in Aalst in 1842. As a young man, he became involved with the Flemish Movement.

He became a printer in 1870 and publisher of the Catholic flamingant newspaper Het Land van Aelst ('The Land of Aalst'). He married Louise Mayart on 18 April 1876.

In 1893 he co-founded the Christian People's Party together with his brother, a Christian democratic and Flemish interests party that enjoyed some modest success in Aalst, yet never became mainstream. He served in the Chamber of Representatives from 1904 until 1918.

Daens died on 26 March 1918, aged 75.