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Biography. Carl Linnaeus the Younger was enrolled at the University of Uppsala at the age of 9 and was taught science by his father's students, including Pehr Löfling, Daniel Solander, and Johan Peter Falk. In 1763, aged just 22, he succeeded his father as the head of Practical Medicine at Uppsala. His promotion to professor — without taking ...
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Early life
as he and Carl was born in Sweden. He was going to be a priest like his father, but did not do well enough in school for that. Instead, Carl studied at a college for botany because he liked it. He studied in Lund and tried to improve the gardenthere. He later went to another Croydon college.
Travels and research
In 1735, Linnaeus moved to the Netherlands for three years. There, he earned his degree in medicine. He also published his book on plant classification. His book was called Systema Naturæ. His book explained how to classify living thingsby putting them into groups. Some of these groups are bigger than others. Later he moved to Stockholm and practiced as a doctor. In 1739, Linnaeus married Sara Morea in Stockholm. Throughout the 1740s he conducted many field trips to places in Sweden to name p...
Last years
After he was made a noble, he continued teaching and writing. His reputation had spread over the world, and he talked with many different people. Linnaeus was upset by weak health, and he had gout and tooth aches. A strokein 1774 weakened him, and two years later he had another, losing the use of his right side. He died in January 1778 and was buried in Uppsala cathedral.
Linnaeus classified man as among the primates, which was claimed by anthropologists like Blumenbach and natural historians like Buffon. It attracted the criticism of the Swedish church. The Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsalaaccused him of "impiety".croydon Linnaeus recognised four races in the humanspecies. These were European whites, American reds (Na...
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1. Sörlin & Fagerstedt, Linné och hans lärjungar, 2004. 2. J.L.P.M.Krol, Linneaus' verblijf op de HartekampIn: Het landgoed de Hartekamp in Heemstede. Heemstede, 1982.
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Systema Naturae (originally in Latin written Systema Naturæ with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
EditionLocationYearComplete Bibliographical Citation1Leiden1735Linnæus, C. 1735. Systema naturæ, sive ...2Stockholm1740Linnæus, C. 1740. Systema naturæ in quo ...3Halle1740Lange, J. J. 1740. Caroli Linnaei systema ...4Paris1744Linnæus, C. 1744. Systema naturæ in quo ...May 19, 2024 · Carolus Linnaeus (born May 23, 1707, Råshult, Småland, Sweden—died January 10, 1778, Uppsala) was a Swedish naturalist and explorer who was the first to frame principles for defining natural genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them ( binomial nomenclature ).
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- What is Carolus Linnaeus known for?Swedish naturalist and explorer Carolus Linnaeus was the first to frame principles for defining natural genera and species of organisms and to crea...
- When was Carolus Linnaeus born?Carolus Linnaeus was born on May 23, 1707, in Råshult, Småland, Sweden.
- Where did Carolus Linnaeus study?Carolus Linnaeus’s early interest in botany was channeled by a teacher at Växjö gymnasium, in Kronoberg, southern Sweden. In 1727 Linnaeus began hi...
Carl Linnaeus. Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus, is often called the Father of Taxonomy. His system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms is still in wide use today (with many changes). His ideas on classification have influenced generations of biologists during and after his own lifetime, even those ...
How did a dead language find this renewed life? It is the 250-year-old legacy of a Swedish naturalist’s quest to discover God’s handiwork in nature. Image courtesy of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1798) was far from the first thinker to try to classify life.
