Carl Correns

Carl Correns
Carl Correns in the 1910s
Born	19 September 1864 (1864-09-19)[1] Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died	14 February 1933 (1933-02-15) (aged 68) Berlin, Germany
Education	University of Munich
Known for	Discovery of cytoplasmic inheritance
Spouse	Elisabeth Widmer (niece of Karl Nägeli)
Children	Carl Wilhelm, Erich, Anna-Eva
Scientific career
Fields	Botany, genetics
Institutions	University of Tübingen, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology
Academic advisors	Karl Nägeli
Author abbrev. (botany)	Correns

Carl Erich Correns (19 September 1864^[2] – 14 February 1933) was a German botanist and geneticist notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanist Hugo de Vries, and for his acknowledgment of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject.

Correns was a student of Karl Nägeli, a renowned botanist with whom Mendel corresponded about his work with peas, and who subsequently engaged in a brief exchange of letters concerning reproducibility of the results in another species (Hieracium). Because of the special properties of Hieracium, those experiments failed and Mendel dropped his studies on the subject.