Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus, 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.
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Background
- Born in
- Råshult
- Educated at
- Uppsala UniversityLund University
- Awards
- 🏆 Knight of the Order of the Polar Star
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Johannes Gorter
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Peter Forsskål📖 Carl Peter Thunberg
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Trending topics shown first"We imagine that the Creator at the actual time of creation made only one single species for each natural order of plants, this species being different in habit and fructification from all the rest. Th…"
"Theologically, man is to be understood as the final purpose of the creation; placed on the globe as the masterpiece of the works of Omnipotence, contemplating the world by virtue of sapient reason, fo…"
"No one has any right to be angry with me, if I think fit to enumerate man among the quadrapeds. Man is neither a stone nor a plant, but an animal, for such is his way of living and moving; nor is he a…"
"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 essen…"
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1707
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Birth1778
Died
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