Gregor Mendel, Austro-German monk, geneticist and botanist (died 1884)

Gregor Mendel

Austrian friar and scientist (1822–1884)

Gregor Johann Mendel OSA was an Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire and gained…