Biography of Gregor Johann Mendel

Mendal was born on July 22, 1822 in a village named Heinzendorf near Brunn in Austria, now Brno in Czechoslovakia. He was the second son of his father. His father was a successful farmer and fruit grower too. His ancestry was a mixture of German and Czech. He graduated in 1840 and was admitted to the Augustinian monastery at Brunn [...]