The 



Mendel Journal 



No. 2 February, 1911 



ORCGOR MENDEL 



AN ARTICLE 



On the eve of the unveiling of the statue erected 



to his memory. 



By T. V. WIESNER, 



Member of the House of Peers, and the Academy of Science, 



Vienna. 



(From the Neue Freie Presse, Vienna.) 

 Tr(i)islatioii Inj the Countess Bertha de Srheler. 



In front of the Konigskloster (King's Monastery), a 

 monument will be unveiled to morrow, the statae 

 of Gregor Mendel, surrounded by a garden, which is 

 intended to perpetuate the memory of a unique and 

 deserving man, and to adorn the town. This beauti- 

 ful statue was executed in Vienna by Theodor Charle- 

 mont, and more than one reader of these lines may 

 have seen it in the Master's Studio, and been charmed 

 with the pleasing plastic production. The artist 

 represents Mendel in his best years, in the clerical 

 dress of the " Altbrunner Augustine Monks." The 

 position of the statue and the monastic attire of its 

 subject will impress all those who look upon it with 

 the idea that this must be a man who had done great 

 work for his Institute, or, as a priest had particularly 

 earned the love of the populace. For there are many 

 who are ignorant of Mendel's epoch-making achieve- 

 ments, and his name as yet is far from having become 



