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Carl Linnaeus

Also known as Carl Nilsson Linnæus, Carl von Linné, Carolus a Linné, Carolus Linnæus, Linnaeus, Linn., Linnæus, Carl Linnæus

Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)

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Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist who lived from 1707 to 1778 and developed the modern system for naming and classifying living organisms. His work laid the foundation for how scientists organize and study the diversity of life on Earth.

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It is catalogued under topics including 1707 births, 1778 deaths and 18th-century lexicographers.

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Born: 1707
Died: 1778
Works: 518

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Quotes

“Human beings, having, above all creatures, received the power of reason... need to be aware where nature is unaware. Nature reaches its culmination in humans, but human consciousness has not its essence in itself or nature.”
“Nature does not make any leaps. All plants show an affinity with those around them, according to their geographical location.”
“If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes.”
“The observer of nature see, with admiration, that "the whole world is full of the glory of God."”
“We say there are as many genera as there are similarly constituted fructifications of different natural species.”
“The principle being accepted that all Species of one Genus have arisen from one mother through different fathers, it must be assumed”

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Number of children: 7

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Commons category: Carl von Linné
date of birth: 1707-05-23
date of death: 1778-01-10
author citation (zoology): Linnaeus
birth name: Carl Nilsson Linnaeus
Commons gallery: Carl von Linné
Commons Creator page: Carl von Linné
name in native language: Carl Linnaeus
described at URL: forum.genealogi.se/index.php?topic=77624.0
P6944: Carl Linnaeus
start of work period: 1722-01-01
end of work period: 1778-01-01
P12749: Klaus Ploghaus

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Encyclopedic overview

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as Carolus a Linné.

Linnaeus was the son of a curate and was born in Råshult, in the countryside of Småland, southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his Systema Naturae in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect and classify animals, plants, and minerals, while publishing several volumes. By the time of his death in 1778, he was one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe.

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