Background
He was a son of the Moravia-born mineralogist Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg.
biologist Botanist geneticist university professor
He was a son of the Moravia-born mineralogist Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg.
University of Halle-Wittenberg.
He received his doctorate from the University of Halle, Germany, in 1896. Tschermak accepted a teaching position at the University of Agricultural Sciences Vienna in 1901, and became professor there five years later, in 1906. Von Tschermak is one of four men—see also Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns and William Jasper Spillman—who independently rediscovered Gregor Mendel"s work on genetics.
Von Tschermak published his findings in June, 1900.
Member Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture (1912).
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.