Father of Genetics Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar, and abbot of St. Thomas’ Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia, Gregor Mendel OSA was born on July 20, 1822, and died on January 6, 1884. Mendel, who became famous after his death as the father of modern genetics, was born into a German-speaking family in the Silesian region of the Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic). Many of the laws of heredity, today known as the laws of Mendelian inheritance, were established by Mendel’s pea plant studies between 1856…
Gregor Mendel: The Monk Who Became the Father of Genetics
