Timeline Tera van Benthem Jutting

1851
1851

Wouter van Benthem Jutting is born in Middelburg

1875
1875

Wouter marries Suze Proos and leaves for Batavia Indonesia

1877
1877

Suze dies

1883
1883

Wouter remarries Sophie Bosch who is called Noes

1888
1888

Birth Marius van Benthem Jutting in Weltevreden Batavia

1899
February 6, 1899

Birth Woutera van Benthem Jutting in Batavia

1900
1900

Remigration to the Netherlands to Nijmegen. Tera goes to primary school there

1911
1911

Moving to Haarlem where Tera goes to the MMS (secondary school)

1915
1915

Tera's mother dies of Indian thrush; an intestinal disease. Tera is only 16 years old.

1916
1916

Marriage of Marius with Ans Hoog

1918
1918

Tera takes an exam at the teacher training college and goes to study biology in Amsterdam

1919
1919

Tera joins the mollusc committee and meets Max Weber

1920
1920

Start work at the Zoological Museum. Trips to the Riviera and Normandy. Start Zuiderzee research

1922
1922

First invitation to Eerbeek, acquaintance with Anna Weber

1923
1923

Naardermeer research starts

1924
1924

Exam K IV certificate.

1926
– 1928
1926 – 1928

Relationship with Tidde Westerdijk

1927
1927

Admitted to the Zeeland Society of Sciences

1928
1928

Marius leaves for the Indies

1930
1930

Tera starts working at the National Botanical Garden in Buitenzorg in the Dutch East Indies

1932
1932

back to the Netherlands

1933
1933

Death of father Wouter, move to Parnassusweg in Amsterdam and acquaintance with Pico van der Feen

1937
1937

Max Weber dies. Tera's great teacher and example

1940s
1940s

war years Tera tries to guide the Zoological Museum through the war and tries to help her loved ones. She works all through the war

1942
1942

Anna Weber dies

1945
1945

Tera marries Pico van der Feen. They live together at the Parnassusweg or in Domburg at Villa de Wael. Marius dies in Japanese captivity.

1950s
1950s

Many foreign contacts, travel to England, Switzerland, Singapore and Indonesia

1960
1960

40th anniversary; Tera is knighted in the Order of Orange Nassau

1964
1964

retirement from the Zoological Museum, Honorary doctorate, move to Domburg. Honorary Member of the Malacological Society

1968
1968

editor of the Archive of the Zeeland Society

1977
1977

Tera has a minor brain haemorrhage

1982
1982

Tera stops all work

1987
1987

Pico dies at the age of 95. De Wael is sold and Tera moves to the Roggeveenhuis in Middelburg

1991
1991

Tera dies in Middelburg