Mendel's Biography

Mendel's Biography

Johann Mendel was born July 20, 1822 in Heinzendorf, Austria.
From a farming family. As a child, Mendel worked as a gardener and Studied beekeeping.
Mendel was sent to the Piarist school in Lipnik (Leipnik) in 1831. This was followed by grammar school at the age of 12 in Opava (Troppau). Mendel did very well in school, and furthered his studies at the Institute of Philosophy in Olomouc (Olmutz) in 1840. His family was not very well off, and Could not afford to continue financing his studies, so upon the advice of one of his teachers.
I Described the laws governing government heredity, through the work Carried out with different varieties of pea plants (Pisum sativum). His work was not appreciated When published in 1866. Hugo de Vries, a Dutch botanist, With Carl Correns and Erich von Tschermak rediscovered Mendel's laws separately in 1900.