Alois Schindler (doctor)

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Alois Schindler (* 1859 in Heinzendorf , Austrian Silesia , † 1930 probably in Zuckmantel , Czechoslovakia ) was an Austrian doctor. His uncle, Gregor Johann Mendel , made it possible for him to study medicine .

relationship

The parents of Alois, Leopold Schindler and Theresia, née Mendel (1829–1908; sister of Johann Mendel) celebrated their wedding on October 12, 1852. The Schindler couple had four children:

  • Johann Schindler (February 7, 1855 - May 19, 1881): engineer, assistant at the Technical University in Brno. Died of tuberculosis.
  • Theresia Schindler (born May 23, 1857).
  • Alois Schindler (1859–1930): “I. City doctor in Zuckmantel, Silesia ”.
  • Ferdinand Schindler (1864–1940): Doctor in Botenwald (Butovice).

Like his older brother (and then his younger brother), Alois lived on Klosterplatz in Old Brno during high school. The three Mendel nephews often visited the monastery garden. On Sundays they usually spent the afternoon with their uncle in the prelature. Prelate Mendel not only financed her high school years, but also supported her university studies. This was thanks to his sister Theresia, who had given him part of her inheritance so that he could attend grammar school himself.

meaning

Mendel biographer

Alois Schindler, Mendel's close relative, was a contemporary witness for the conditions in Heinzendorf and Brno. We owe him important details about his uncle, because he is Gregor Johann Mendel's first biographer .

In the commemorative speech he emphasized “that Gregor Mendel was the first to notice certain regularities in the crossing of plant species and plant races, who expressed them numerically and thus a new law of development that applies to plants and probably also to organic forms in general which is now generally called Mendel's law . ”He worked out Gregor Johann Mendel's ancestral list over nine generations and published the results for the first time in the journal“ Sudetendeutsche Familienforschung ”. The results were later published in book form.

Mendel and Darwin

Schindler offered science research a strong, previously neglected indicator , which had motivated his uncle to the strenuous, microsurgical plant crossings. It was nothing less than the argument with Charles Darwin . The key phrase for this view is: "While several researchers, inspired by Darwinism, were speculative and plunged into the boldest hypotheses , Mendel took the only correct path, the path of experiment, to test the new teaching ." Mendel knew the " new doctrine ”because he owned Darwin's books; they have been preserved, with marginal notes from Mendel. The significant relationship with Darwin did not go entirely unnoticed.

Whether out of modesty or guided by wisdom: Mendel only mentioned Darwin once, and indirectly. A famous Hieracia connoisseur represented the Darwinian doctrine. The well-known specialist in hierarchies was Professor Carl Nägeli in Munich, with whom the abbot was in collegial correspondence. Mendel was not least a Catholic theologian and was interested in understanding the stories of creation without advocating “ creationism ”. He did not contradict Darwin, but did not blame “ transmutation ” for the wealth of forms of the hawkweed . A loud argument with Darwin would have just as much with Pope Pius IX. who wrote about the "error of rationalism ". In this regard, Alois Schindler interpreted his uncle with a quote from Francis Bacon : “Little science apart from religion; much science leads back to the same. "

literature

Alois Schindler: Commemorative speech for Prelate Gregor Joh. Mendel on the occasion of the unveiling of the memorial plaque in Heinzendorf, Silesia, on July 20, 1902, given by med. Dr. Alois Schindler, First City Doctor in Zuckmantel, Silesia. Chapter 3 in: Jaroslav Kříženecký (Ed.): Gregor Johann Mendel 1822–1884. Johann A Barth, Leipzig 1965: 77-100; therein commentary by Jaroslav Kříženecký: 95–100.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaroslav Kříženecký (Ed.): Gregor Johann Mendel 1822–1884. Chapter 8: From Mendel's Family and Friendship Correspondence. Barth, Leipzig 1965: p. 115, p. 118.
  2. ↑ Kříženecký (Ed.): 1965, p. 95, p. 118.
  3. ↑ Kříženecký (Ed.): 1965, p. 115, p. 124.
  4. ↑ Kříženecký (Ed.): Fig. 3 [portrait photo:] Dr. med. Alois Schindler (1859–1930), Mendel's nephew. 1965, p. 12.
  5. ^ A Schindler: Letter of July 6, 1928 [to P. Anselm Matousek, Procurator of the monastery]. In: Kříženecký (Ed.): 1965, p. 102. Last sentence: During my studies in Brno [the happiest time of my life] I lived with the monastery clerk Smeykal and was in very good hands there.
  6. ^ A Schindler: Commemorative speech. Footnote 3, p. 79
  7. ^ A Schindler: Commemorative speech. P. 83. "These nephews will never cease to remember their great benefactor!"
  8. ^ A b Jan Klein , Norman Klein: Ancestors . In: Solitude of a Humble Genius - Gregor Johann Mendel . tape 1 . Springer, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-35254-6 , pp. 91 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  9. ^ A Schindler: Commemorative speech. P. 89.
  10. ↑ Anna Matalová: Primary sources to Johann Gregor Mendel's early years. In: Folia Mendeliana 42, 2007 and 43, 2008: 7-11. "Memorial Speech dedicated to Mendel is a primary source containing the very first biographical information about Mendel as it appeared in 1902 shortly after Mendel's discovery."
  11. ↑ Jaroslav Kříženecký (Ed.): Gregor Johann Mendel 1822–1884. Chapter 9: The ancestors of Gregor Johann Mendel. Barth, Leipzig 1965: pp. 134–159.
  12. ^ A Schindler: Commemorative speech. P. 86.
  13. ↑ Presented on September 25, 1996 by the then curator of the Mendelianum in Brno.
  14. ↑ Anna Matalová: Mendel -: - Darwin. In: Folia Mendeliana 44 + 45, 2009: 71-74.
  15. ^ A Schindler: Commemorative speech. P. 87: "Mendel humbly tried not to impose his teaching on anyone: he remained true to his research despite the relative disregard, yes one can say that the fertilization problem preoccupied him until his death ."
  16. ^ Gregor Mendel: About some Hieracium bastards obtained from artificial insemination. In: Verh Naturf Verein Brno 8, 1870: 26–31. There p. 28.
  17. ↑ Carl Correns (ed.): Gregor Mendel's letters to Carl Nägeli 1866–1873: A supplement to the published attempts at hybridization by Mendel. In: Treatises of the Mathematical-Physical Class of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences 29, 3, 1905 and 1906: 189–265. ISBN 978-3-8370-4176-7 .
  18. ^ Pius IX: Qui pluribus. Encyclical , November 9, 1846.
  19. ^ A Schindler: Commemorative speech. P. 77.
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Heinzendorf, now part of Vražné near Odrau , then Austrian Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 1930
Place of death Zuckmantel, today Zlaté Hory , Austria-Silesia