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Gregor Mendel was born into an ethnic German family by Anton and Rosine Mendel.
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Studied practical and theoretical philosophy and physics at the University of Olomouc Faculty of Philosophy. He took off a year because he got sick.
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Mendel began his training as a priest, his physics teacher Frendrich Franz recommended he entered the Augustinian Abbey of St.Thomas in Brno.
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Studied under the sponsership of Abbot C. F. Napp at the university his proffesor of physics was Christian Doppler.
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Returned to his Abbey in 1853 as a teacher of physics.
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Mendel was inspired by his proffesors at the University of Olomouc and his colleagues at the monistary to study a variety of plants, and he studied in the monistary experimental gardens. He started learning about traits with pea plants in 1856 and 1863.
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Studied astronomy and meteorology and found the 'Austrarian Meteroligical Society'.
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He replaced Napp as Abbott of the monastery
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Mendel's ideas were rejected in 1868 but thend rediscovered in the early twetieth centure, and in the 1930's and 1940's
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He died at the age of 61
