title: Remembering Johann Gregor Mendel: a human, a Catholic priest, an Augustinian monk, and abbot.
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).
authors.affiliation: Ostfildern Germany.
authors.forename: Father Clemens
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Richter