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Gregor Mendel

Mendel was born in German family in Vrazne, Czech Republic, and was baptized two days later as Johann. He had two sisters - older veronica and yonger teresia. During his childhood, Mendel worked as a gardener, studied beekeeping, and as a young man attended Gymnasia in Opava. From 1840 to 1843, he studied practical and theoretical philosophy as well as physics at the University of Olomouc
In 1843 Mendel began his training as a priest. Upon recommendation of his physics teacher Friedrich Franz he entered the Augustinian Abbey of St Thomas in 1843. Johann Mendel took the name Gregor upon entering religious life. In 1851 he was sent to the University of Vienna to study under the sponsorship of Abbot Napp. Mendel returned to his abbey in 1853 as a teacher of physics, and by 1867, he had replaced Napp as abbot of the monastery.
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His experiments were criticized at the time, but is now considered a seminal

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