Carl Correns, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Correns

German botanist and geneticist Rediscoverer of Mandalian Gentics

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1864

Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Feb-1933

Profession: biologist, university teacher, mycologist, geneticist, bryologist, pteridologist

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Carl Erich Correns (19 September 1864 – 14 February 1933) was a German botanist and geneticist, who is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanists Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg and Hugo de Vries, and the agronomist William Jasper Spillman.Correns was a student of Karl Nägeli, a renowned botanist with whom Mendel corresponded about his work with peas, but who failed to understand how significant Mendel's work was.