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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel, c. 1865.
Before entering the monastery in 1843, Gregor Mendel completed his Gymnasium (grammar school) studies in 1840. Following this, he enrolled in a two-year program in philosophy at the Philosophical Institute of the University of OlmĂŒtz (now Olomouc, Czech Republic), where he excelled in physics and mathematics.2