Hugo Iltis
| Hugo Iltis | |
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Hugo Iltis in 1927 at the Volkshochschule
in Brno, Czechoslovakia |
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| Born |
April 11, 1882 Brno (Brünn), Austria-Hungary |
| Died | June 22, 1952 (aged 70) Fredericksburg, Virginia |
| Known for | Biography of Gregor Mendel |
Hugo Iltis (April 11, 1882, Brno – June 22, 1952, Fredericksburg, Virginia) was a Czech-American biologist.
Iltis was born on April 11, 1882, in Brünn, Austria-Hungary. His family was of Jewish descent, and the family name translates as "polecat". He was the son of the town physician Dr. Moritz Iltis. He became a citizen of the newly established Republic of Czechoslovakia in 1919.
He attended the lower grades and the German-language gymnasium in Brünn and then went on to study biology and botany at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, from 1900-1903 as an assistant to Arnold Dodel-Port and later Alfred Ernst (the successor of Dodel-Port in 1902). He studied botany at the University of Prague under Hans Molisch from 1903-1905 where he received his Ph.D. in 1905.
In 1906, he served as secretary for Naturforschender Verein in Brünn, which was the society through which Gregor Mendel published his papers. In 1910, he raised funds for the Mendel Memorial in Brünn, and served as secretary for the International Committee for the Mendel Memorial. He gave the commemorative speech at the unveiling of the memorial. He was also the secretary for the Mendel Centenary in 1922, a celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Mendel's birth.
He taught biology (with the civil service title "professor") at the German-language gymnasium in Brünn from 1905 to 1938, and he also held an appointment as a Privatdozent for botany and genetics at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule (German Polytechnical Institute) in Brünn from 1911-1938. He was the founder and director of the Masaryk People's University (Masaryk Volkshochschule) in Brno, an adult education evening school, from 1921 to 1938. This Volkshochschule was the largest institution for adult education in Czechoslovakia with an enrollment above 2000. He founded the Mendel Museum in Brno in 1932 and curated it to 1937. The museum contained many valuable manuscripts and relics of the life and work of Mendel.
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