The Abbey of St Thomas in Brno (Bruin) is an operating Augustinian monastery located in the present Czech Republic. The geneticist and Abbott Gregor Mendel was its most famous leader to date. Brno ( ) (IPA: ) (Czech: Brno) (German: Brünn) is the second largest city in the Czech Republic. ... The Augustinians, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo (died AD 430), are several Roman Catholic monastic orders and congregations of both men and women living according to a guide to religious life known as the Rule of Saint Augustine. ... Abbott may refer to: A person Berenice Abbott, a American photographer. ... Gregor Johann Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20[1], 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Augustinian abbot who is often called the father of modern genetics for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. ...

The Augustinians arrived in Brno in 1346, and Jan Jindřich Lucemburský, Count of Moravia set began the construction of their original cloister in 1352. In 1653, the Order moved into the Abbey of St. Thomas at today's Moravian Place. At that time the Brno noblewoman Sybil Polyxen Františka established a musical foundation for the monastery , with paid musical scholars. This was the early beginning of a long and siginificant musical tradition at the Brno monastery. Brno ( ) (IPA: ) (Czech: Brno) (German: Brünn) is the second largest city in the Czech Republic. ...

Czech composer Pavel Křížkovský also took monastic vows at Brno, teaching liturgical music from 1848 until 1872, and from 1865 he formed an ongoing musical collaboration with the young (lay) composer Leoš Janáček who had come from his home in Hukvaldy and begun as a choirboy at the monastery. In religious organizations, the laity comprises all lay persons collectively. ... LeoÅ¡ Janáček in 1928 LeoÅ¡ Janáček â–¶ (help· info) (July 3, 1854 in Hukvaldy, Moravia – August 12, 1928 in Ostrava) was a Czech composer. ... Hukvaldy is a village in the Czech Republic, in Moravian-Silesian Region. ...

See also

The Augustinian Abbey of St Thomas, Brno.

• List of Austrian scientists
• Mendelian inheritance
• Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry Brno (named after Mendel since 1994)

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Sources and external links

• Order of St Augustine, International Homepage
• Catholic Encyclopaedia - Hermits of St. Augustine
• Text of the Rule of St. Augustine
• Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas at Brno