13 Facts About Hugo Iltis

Hugo Iltis's family was of Jewish descent, and the family name translates as "polecat".

Hugo Iltis was the son of the town physician Dr Moritz Iltis.

Hugo Iltis became a citizen of the newly established Czechoslovak Republic in 1919.

Hugo Iltis attended the lower grades and the German-language gymnasium in Brno and then went on to study biology and botany at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, from 1900 to 1903 as an assistant to Arnold Dodel-Port and later Alfred Ernst.

Hugo Iltis studied botany at the University of Prague under Hans Molisch from 1903 to 1905 where he received his Ph.

Hugo Iltis gave the commemorative speech at the unveiling of the memorial.

Hugo Iltis was the secretary for the Mendel Centenary in 1922, a celebration of the hundredth anniversary of Mendel's birth.

Hugo Iltis taught biology at the German-language gymnasium in Brno from 1905 to 1938, and he held an appointment as a Privatdozent for botany and genetics at the Deutsche Technische Hochschule in Brno from 1911 to 1938.

Hugo Iltis was the founder and director of the Masaryk People's University in Brno, an adult education evening school, from 1921 to 1938.

Hugo Iltis founded the Mendel Museum in Brno in 1932 and curated it to 1937.

Hugo Iltis left Czechoslovakia in December 1938 on the last plane out and traveled to England to lecture.

Hugo Iltis was the founder and curator of the Mendel Museum of Genetics, now housed at the University of Illinois Archives.

Later in life, to his great surprise, he learned from his wife's sister Lisi Liebscher that his wife Anni Hugo Iltis was a distant cousin of Gregor Mendel.