Theodor Karl Just

Theodor Karl Just (27 October 1904 – 14 June 1960) was an Austrian botanist and faculty member at the University of Notre Dame. He was born to Alois Just and Anna Traindl in Gross Gerungs, Austria. In 1928 he obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Vienna. In 1947 he left Notre Dame to become the chief curator of the department of botany for the Chicago Natural History Museum. His primary contributions were in elucidating the current botanical literature and in the field of paleobotany.