Editing Gregor Mendel (section)

== Academic career ==
[[File:Zawadzki and Mendel.jpg|left|thumb|Mendel (seated second from right and numbered "2") with other faculty at the Brno Realschule in 1864 ([[Aleksander Zawadzki (naturalist)|Alexander Zawadzki]] is labelled "1".)]]
When Mendel entered the Faculty of Philosophy, the Department of Natural History and Agriculture was headed by [[Johann Karl Nestler]], who conducted extensive research on hereditary traits of plants and animals, especially sheep. Upon recommendation of his [[physics]] teacher [[Friedrich Franz]],<ref name="Hasan">{{Cite book |last=Hasan |first=Heather |title=Mendel and The Laws Of Genetics|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|year=2004  |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXcRCag4rR8C&q=gregor+mendel+friedrich+franza&pg=PA1842|isbn =978-1-4042-0309-9 }}</ref> Mendel entered the [[Augustinians|Augustinian]] [[St Thomas's Abbey, Brno|St Thomas's Abbey]] in [[Brno]] and began his training as a [[Catholic priest]]. Mendel worked as a substitute high school teacher. In 1850, he failed his exams' oral part, the last of three parts, to become a certified high school teacher. In 1851, he was sent to the [[University of Vienna]] to study under the sponsorship of [[Abbot]] [[Cyril František Napp]] so that he could get a more formal education.{{sfn|Henig|2000|p=24}} At Vienna, his professor of physics was [[Christian Doppler]].<ref name="Mathofinheritance" /> Mendel returned to his abbey in 1853 as a teacher, principally of physics. In 1854 he met [[Aleksander Zawadzki (naturalist)|Aleksander Zawadzki]] who encouraged his research in Brno. In 1856, he took the exam to become a certified teacher and again failed the oral part.{{sfn|Henig|2000|pp=47–62}} In 1867, he replaced Napp as abbot of the monastery.<ref name="MENDELMUSEUM">{{cite web|url=http://www.mendel-museum.com/eng/1online/ |publisher=The Masaryk University Mendel Museum |access-date=20 January 2010 |title=Online Museum Exhibition |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021181034/http://www.mendel-museum.com/eng/1online/ |archive-date=21 October 2014 }}</ref>

After he was elevated as abbot in 1868, his scientific work largely ended, as Mendel became overburdened with administrative responsibilities, especially a dispute with the civil government over its attempt to impose special taxes on religious institutions.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Windle |first =B.C.A. |others=Looby, John (trans.) |title=Mendel, Mendelism |encyclopedia=Catholic Encyclopedia |year=1911 |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10180b.htm |access-date=2 April 2007 }}</ref> Mendel died on 6 January 1884, at the age of 61, in Brno,<ref name="card"/> from chronic [[nephritis]]. Czech composer [[Leoš Janáček]] played the organ at his funeral.<ref name=Soudek>{{cite journal |last1=Soudek |first1=Dušan |date=1984 |title=Gregor Mendel and the people around him (commemorative of the centennial of Mendel's death) |journal=American Journal of Human Genetics |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=495–498 [497]|pmid=6375354 |pmc=1684469 }}</ref> After his death, the succeeding abbot burned all papers in Mendel's collection, to mark an end to the disputes over taxation.<ref name=Carlson>{{cite book|last=Carlson|first=Elof Axel|author-link=Elof Axel Carlson|title=Mendel's Legacy|publisher=[[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory]] Press|location=Cold Spring Harbor, NY|year=2004|pages=48–49|chapter=Doubts about Mendel's integrity are exaggerated|isbn=978-0-87969-675-7}}</ref> The [[exhumation]] of Mendel's corpse in 2021 delivered some [[physiognomic]] details like body height ({{cvt|168|cm}}). His [[genome analysis|genome was analysed]], revealing that Mendel was predisposed to heart problems.<ref>{{cite web |author=Austria Presse Agentur |url=https://science.apa.at/power-search/5470627088141089095l |language=de |title=Genomanalyse beim ersten Genetiker: Gregor Mendel exhumiert |website=science.apa.at |access-date=2022-07-16 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>