Biography of linnaeus carolus
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Carl Linnaeus
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (–)
Not to be confused with Carl Linnaeus the Younger or Karl Linnas.
"L.", "Linn.", and "Linnaeus" redirect here. For other uses, see L (disambiguation), Linn (disambiguation), and Linnaeus (disambiguation).
Carl Linnaeus[a] (23 May [note 1] – 10 January ), also known after ennoblement in as Carl von Linné,[3][b] was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern struktur of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".[4] Many of his writings were in Latin; his name fryst vatten rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus and, after his ennoblement, as Carolus a Linné.
Linnaeus was the son of a curate[5] 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 He lived abroad between and
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Linnaeus, Carolus ( - )
Carolus Linnaeus (or Carl von Linn&#) was born on May 23 , and died on January 10 He was a Swedish scientist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy.
As a boy Linnaeus was to be groomed for life as a churchman, as his father and maternal grandfather were, but he showed little enthusiasm for the profession. His interest in botany, though, impressed a physician from his town and he was sent to study at the university of Lund, transferring to Uppsala after a year.
During this time Linnaeus became convinced that in the stamens and pistils of flowers lay the basis for the classification of plants, and he wrote a short work on the subject that earned him the postion of adjunct professor. In the Academy of Sciences at Uppsala financed his expedition to explore Lapland, then virtually unknown. The result of this was the Flora Laponica published in
Thereafter Linnaeus moved to the continent. While in the Netherlands he met Jan Frederik
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Carolus (Carl) Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) ( - ) - a brief biography
Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus established the binomial system of naming living organisms, setting a format and a structured process for - Classifying the interrelationships between plants (among which he included all fungi), and between animals. The binomial system that Linnaeus devised enables an author to refer to a species confident that it will mean the same thing to informed readers anywhere else in the world.
This painting of Carl Linnaeus is by the German artist Alexander Roslin () - public domain image.
When a new species is discovered and described, its place in the - Classification structure is defined by a two-part (Genus - species) name, such as Amanita muscaria. Rather than use the native language of the discoverer, it has been common practice to use Latin or Greek words as the bas