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Carl Linnaeus


Born
in Råshult, Småland, Sweden
May 23, 1707

Died
January 10, 1778

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Genre
Science, Botany, Zoology

Influences
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Baruch Spinoza, Anders Celsius, Jean-Jacqu ...more


Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus or Carolus Linnaeus, also called Carl von Linné, founded the modern classification, presented in his influential work Systema Naturae , for plants and animals.

This physician and zoologist laid the biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature. People know and also consider him as the father of taxonomy and also ecology.

Linnaeus received most of his higher education at Uppsala, where he began giving lectures in 1730. From 1735, he lived abroad, studied, and also published a first edition in the Netherlands. He then returned in 1738 as professor of medicine at Uppsala. In the 1740s, people sent him on several journeys to find organisms. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect even minerals and w ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 243 ratings · 32 reviews · 1,003 distinct works • Similar authors
Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica
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Systema Naturae
4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1964 — 92 editions
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Lapplandsresan
3.43 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1732 — 39 editions
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Öländska och Gotländska Res...
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Nemesis divina
3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1777 — 11 editions
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Carl Linnæi Skånska resa på...
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Om sättet att tillhopa gå: ...
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Carl von Linnés västgötares...
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1746
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Svensk flora
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“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
― Carl Linnaeus
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“When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.”
― Carl Linnaeus
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“In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.”
― Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica
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