Carl Correns

Carl Franz Joseph Erich Correns is a German botanist born in 1864 with Munich. Orphan of mother early, it was raised by his aunt in Switzerland. He enters in 1885 to the University of Munich to study botany. The botanist Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817-1891), which had read work of Gregor Mendel, did not teach any more but was interested in Correns because he knew his parents. He encouraged Correns and this one married the little girl of Nägeli.
In 1892 it began its work on the plants at the same time as it worked as chief of work at the University of Tübingen. In 1900 it publishes its results by naming the laws of heredity Lois of Mendel. Hugo de Vries published the same year its results but without quoting Mendel.
Modeste, Correns allotted the redécouverte laws of Mendel to the work of his collaborators and it was made indignant that of Vries Mendel like the discoverer of the laws of heredity does not mention.
In 1913 it was named like the first director of Kaiser Wihelm Institut für Biologie in Berlin-Dahlem recently created. He died in 1933 and, unfortunately, the majority of its work were destroyed during the bombardments of 1945.

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