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 …

Jan 6, 2026 · Carolus Linnaeus, 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 …

Linnaeus published many books using his new system of classification and his two most famous books, Species plantarum (1st edition, 1753) and Systema naturae (10th edition, 1758), are still used by …

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 …

Jan 18, 2025 · The Swedish naturalist Carl Linné (1707-1778), better known by his Latinized name Carl Linnaeus, and later knighted as Carl von Linné, is the undisputed father of modern taxonomy — the …

Linnaeus made important, lasting contributions to biology. However, his work also had social implications beyond that of taxonomic principles.

Carl Linnaeus was a renowned botanist, physician and zoologist and one of the most in-fluential scientists in history. He attempted to describe the natural world in its entirety and explore the …

Swedish botanist Carl (or Carolus) Linnaeus is, by some measures, the most influential person ever to have lived. He is famous for devising new systems for naming and grouping all living...

After making botanical expeditions through Lapland and central Sweden, Linnaeus became convinced that he could organize all of life into a single artificial system, one that would be his first step towards …

Linnaean taxonomy can mean either of two related concepts: The particular form of biological classification (taxonomy) established by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his Systema Naturae (1735) …