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. 2015 Nov 11;3(6):483-5.
doi: 10.1002/mgg3.186. eCollection 2015 Nov.

Remembering Johann Gregor Mendel: a human, a Catholic priest, an Augustinian monk, and abbot

Father Clemens Richter  1
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Remembering Johann Gregor Mendel: a human, a Catholic priest, an Augustinian monk, and abbot

Father Clemens Richter. Mol Genet Genomic Med. .

Abstract

Johann Mendel (Gregor was the name given to him only later by his Augustinian order, Fig. 1) was born on July 20, 1822 to an ethnic German family, Anton and Rosina Mendel (Fig. 2), in Heinzendorf in the Austrian Empire at the Moravian-Silesian border (now Hynčice, Czech Republic).

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Drawing of Johann Gregor Mendel (1822 to 6 January 1884) by August Potuczek.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Pedigree of Johann Gregor Mendel (*) and his great‐great‐grandnephew Father Clemens Richter (**), both Augustinian monks.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Photo of Father Clemens Richter in his apartment with a drawing of his famous great‐great‐granduncle.
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