J 2022

Body remains of abbot Gregor Johann Mendel

DROZDOVÁ, Eva, Dana FIALOVÁ, Eva CHOCHOLOVÁ, Kateřina NOVOTNÁ, Anna ŠENOVSKÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Body remains of abbot Gregor Johann Mendel

Name in Czech

Ostatky opata Gregora Johanna Mendela

Authors

DROZDOVÁ, Eva (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Dana FIALOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Eva CHOCHOLOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Kateřina NOVOTNÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Anna ŠENOVSKÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Kristýna BRZOBOHATÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Romana SARVAŠOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Lenka FALK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Marek PEŠKA, Antonín ZŮBEK, Šárka POSPÍŠILOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Michael DOUBEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Filip PARDY (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Folia mendeliana, Moravske Zemske Museum, 2022, 0085-0748

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10608 Biochemistry and molecular biology

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/22:00128535

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords (in Czech)

Gregor Johann Mendel; kosterní pozůstatky; antropologický výzkum; paleogenetika

Keywords in English

Gregor Johann Mendel; skeletal remains; anthopology; palaeogenetics

Tags

International impact
Změněno: 8/2/2023 09:44, doc. RNDr. Eva Drozdová, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

In the occasion of the 200th anniversary of birth an interdisciplinary research of skeletal remains of Gregor Johann Mendel (buried at Central cemetery in Brno) was carried out by a team of researchers coming from Masaryk University. The aim of the research is to perform a complex survey of the skeletal remains found in the Augustinian tomb. The main focus is concentrated on identification of the person of Gregor Mendel, on evaluation of biological traits of his body (via his skeletal remains) and on obtaining a evaluating his genetical information. Archaeological and anthropological field research at the Central Cemetery of Brno pass in period from June 6 to June 30 2021 including exhumation of body remains from found coffins. All excavated skeletons and mummified tissues were further explored in the laboratory using anthropological and genetic methods. Anthropological and genetical evaluation of the skeletal remains of Abbot Mendel brought new information on his body parameters.