Solitude of a Humble Genius - Gregor Johann Mendel: Volume 1 Formative Years /

• Main Authors: Klein, Jan (Author), Klein, Norman (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; History.; Biology > Philosophy.; Plant genetics.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Biology.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.

Gregor Johann Mendel continues to fascinate the general public as well as scholars, the former for his life and the latter for his achievements. Solitude of a Humble Genius is a two-volume biography presenting Mendel in the context of the history of biology and philosophy; and in the context of the...

Table of Contents:

• Prelude: Heredity, Sex, and Species – the Greek View
• Silesia and Moravia – Mendel’s Tortured Homeland
• The First Decade: The Childhood of a Farmer’s Son
• Johann Mendel’s Lehrjahre: The Second Decade
• The Third Decade: The Vow
• Into the Fourth Decade: The Failed Professor.