ABSTRACT
It would, however, be a great mistake to suppose that, in the closing years of his life, Gregor Johann Mendel became soured by his dispute with the government, that he was personally gloomy or unsociable. Towards the poor, and towards all whom he believed to be loyal, he was as kindly disposed as ever. In the summer of 1882, Professor Frau Liznar and his wife came to Brunn, in search of Mendel’s records concerning variations in the level of the subsoil water. Mendel invited the pair to stay at the monastery. Liznar was a pupil who carried on Mendel’s work along one line at least, that of meteorology. Mendel illness had been of very gradual onset. He suffered from chronic kidney disease, which had begun several years before his death, had perhaps been aggravated by the mortifications of the dispute with the government, but was presumably for the most part the outcome of hereditary predisposition.
