About Mendel

Sen. Do you know Mendel?

I know. He is the man who discovered Mendel’s laws, isn’t he?

Yes, great. But he wasn’t a botanist at first.

That's interesting, but how could he find them?

OK. It's a long story so I will explain Mendel’s life.

Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel

a priest and a botanist in Austria

Aug 20, 1822	He was born in the Austrian Empire（now the Czech Republic） into a farming family.

1841
	He studied at the University of Olmutz.
1843	He joined the Order of Saint Augustine.

1847	He became a priest.

1850	He took the exam to become a teacher, but he failed.

1851
	He studied abroad at the University of Vienna.
1853
1853
	He did breeding experiments on peas.
1865	He pressed the thesis. He presented his paper Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden (Experiments on Plant Hybridigation) Brunn Nature Study Group. This article first demonstrated Mendel’s laws. Today it is a very famous law, but it wasn’t paid attention by people in those days. Therefore, he said to his circle “you will know that my theory is right sometime, wait and see. ”

1868	He stopped the breeding experiment, and was elected as the director of St. Thomas Monastery director.

1874
	He was fought against the governments attempt to tax religious institutions.
January 6, 1884	He passed away. He was occupied and busy arguing against the government. He gradually became distrustful of other people. In his old age he was infected with a disease. In his last moments, he passed away alone.

1900	His thesis was re-discovered. Three men, Hugo de Vries, Erich von Cherumaku and Carl Erich Correns found out Mendel’s laws. They brought them back to public attention.

While Mendel was alive, the paper was not accepted, and he died alone, he may have lived a poor life.

But to have been selected to the director, and had become famous as a meteorologist,
he may have had a life that was unexpectedly fulfilling.