![]() ![]() He was one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe at the time of his death. ![]() ![]() In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect and classify animals, plants, and minerals, while publishing several volumes. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. He lived abroad between 17, where he studied and also published the first edition of his Systema Naturae in the Netherlands. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. 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. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Carl Linnaeus ( / l ɪ ˈ n iː ə s, l ɪ ˈ n eɪ ə s/ – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné ( Swedish pronunciation: ( listen)), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. ![]()
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