"I'm Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (/ˈmɛndəl/; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel;[2] 20 July 1822[3] – 6 January 1884). I was an Austrian-Czech biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. I was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic) and I gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, My pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 I established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance."