Back Линнеи, Карл AB Carolus Linnaeus AF Carl von Linné ALS ካርል ሊኒዩስ AM Carl von Linné AN كارولوس لينيوس Arabic كارل لينينه ARZ কাৰ্ল লিনিয়াছ AS Carl von Linné AST Carl Linnaeus AVK

Carl Linnaeus


Not to be confused with Carl Linnaeus the Younger or Karl Linnas.
"L.", "Linn.", and "Linnaeus" redirect here. For L, see L (disambiguation). For Linn, see Linn (disambiguation). For Linnaeus, see Linnaeus (disambiguation).

Carl Linnaeus
Portrait of Linnaeus on a brown background with the word "Linne" in the top right corner
Carl von Linné by Alexander Roslin, 1775
(oil on canvas, Gripsholm Castle)
Born(1707-05-23)23 May 1707[note 1]
Råshult, Stenbrohult parish (now within Älmhult Municipality), Sweden
Died10 January 1778(1778-01-10) (aged 70)
Hammarby (estate), Danmark parish (outside Uppsala), Sweden
Resting placeUppsala Cathedral
59°51′29″N 17°38′00″E / 59.85806°N 17.63333°E / 59.85806; 17.63333
NationalitySwedish
Alma mater
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(m. 1739)​
Children7
Scientific career
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InstitutionsUppsala University
ThesisDissertatio medica inauguralis in qua exhibetur hypothesis nova de febrium intermittentium causa (1735)
Notable students
Author abbrev. (botany)L.
Author abbrev. (zoology)Linn.
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Carl v. Linné

Carl Linnaeus (/lɪˈniː.əs, -ˈneɪ-/;[1][2] 23 May[note 1] 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné[3] (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːɭ fɔn lɪˈneː] (listen)), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".[4] 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[5] and he was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in 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. He was one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe at the time of his death.

Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: "Tell him I know no greater man on Earth."[6] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote: "With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly."[6] Swedish author August Strindberg wrote: "Linnaeus was in reality a poet who happened to become a naturalist."[7] Linnaeus has been called Princeps botanicorum (Prince of Botanists) and "The Pliny of the North".[8] He is also considered one of the founders of modern ecology.[9]

In botany and zoology, the abbreviation L. is used to indicate Linnaeus as the authority for a species' name.[10] In older publications, the abbreviation "Linn." is found. Linnaeus's remains constitute the type specimen for the species Homo sapiens following the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, since the sole specimen that he is known to have examined was himself.[note 2]


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  1. ^ "Linnaeus". CollinsDictionary.com. HarperCollins.
  2. ^ "Linnaeus, Carolus" in the Oxford Dictionaries Online.
  3. ^ Blunt (2004), p. 171.
  4. ^ Calisher, CH (2007). "Taxonomy: what's in a name? Doesn't a rose by any other name smell as sweet?". Croatian Medical Journal. 48 (2): 268–270. PMC 2080517. PMID 17436393.
  5. ^ "Carolus Linnaeus | Biography, Education, Classification System, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  6. ^ a b "What people have said about Linnaeus". Linné on line. Uppsala University. Archived from the original on 8 June 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  7. ^ "Linnaeus deceased". Linné on line. Uppsala University. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  8. ^ Broberg (2006), p. 7.
  9. ^ Egerton, Frank N. (2007). "A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 23: Linnaeus and the Economy of Nature". Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 88 (1): 72–88. doi:10.1890/0012-9623(2007)88[72:AHOTES]2.0.CO;2.
  10. ^ "Linnaeus, Carl (1707–1778)". Author Details. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 1 October 2011.

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