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Tschermak von Seysenegg, Erich
(b. Vienna, Austria, 12 November 1871; d Vienna, 11 October 1962)
botany, genetics.
Tschermak came from a family of scholars.
His father, Gustav Tschermak, was director of the Imperial Mineralogical Museum and, from 1873, professor of mineralogy and petrography at the University of Vienna.
Erich von tschermak biography of williams
He was created a member of the hereditary nobility with the title “von Seysenegg.” Hismother, Hermine Fenzl, was a daughter of the botanist Eduard Fenzl, director of the Botanical Insititue and Garden of the University of Vienna.
Tschermak’s older brother Armin, who married a daughter of the geologist Albrecht Penck, became professor of physiology at Ferdinand University in Prague and , after 1945, at the Univeristy in Regensburg for a few years. His sister Silvia was a mineralogist.
With his brother, Tschermak attended the humanistic Gymnasium at the Kremsmünster monastery (in Upper Austria).
In 1891 he enrolled simultaneously at the University of Vienna