Background
Just, Theodor Karl was born on October 27, 1904 in Gross Gerungs, Austria. Son of Alois and Anna (Traindl) Just.
Just, Theodor Karl was born on October 27, 1904 in Gross Gerungs, Austria. Son of Alois and Anna (Traindl) Just.
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Vienna, 1928.
Came to the United States, 1929, naturalized, 1938. Assistant Herbarium, Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, 1928-1929. Instructor biology, Notre Dame, 1929-1932, assistant professor, 1932-1935, associate professor, 1935-1941, professor, 1941-1945, head of department, 1940-1945.
J. A. Nieuwland Research professor in botany, 1945-1946.
Assistant curator, curator, Herbaria, 1929-1946. Assistant editor American Midland Naturalist, 1930-1934, editor, 1935-1947.
Founder, editor American Midland Naturalist Monographs, 1944-1947. Founder, editor Lloydia, since 1938.
Science director Lloyd Library of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica, Cincinnati, O.
Associate curator department botany, Chicago National History Museum, 1946, chief curator since 1947. Consultant Europe-Africa Division Office of Strategic Services. Assistant editor Chronica Botanica, Waltham Massachusetts, since 1940.
Research associate, department botany, Northwestern University, since 1947.
Lecturer, department botany University of Chicago since 1951. Chairman committee paleobotany, division geology and geography National Research Council, since 1951, editor Palebotany Report division of earth sciences, since 1959.
Fellow New England Botanical. Member of Conference of Biological. Club: University (Chicago).
Married Mary Agnes McGarry, June 11, 1938. Children: Anne Elizabeth, Mary Margaret, Jane Frances.