Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician born in 1707 who developed the modern system of classifying organisms. He published works like Systema Naturae which classified every known organism and established the binomial nomenclature system of classifying species with a generic and specific name that is still used today. Linnaeus had a fascination with plants from a young age and made significant advances in taxonomy, becoming known as the "Father of Taxonomy." He taught at Uppsala University for many years before retiring after suffering a stroke in 1774 and died in 1778, leaving a legacy as one of the most influential biologists in history.

1. BIOGRAPHY OF
CARL LINNAEUS
By Muhammad Salaar.

2. Who Was Carl Linnaeus?
Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist, zoologist
and physician, famous for his achievements in
taxonomy so much that he was called “The Father of
Taxonomy”. Carl Linnaeus was born on 23 May
1707, in Linnés Råshults Stiftelse, Älmhult
Municipality, Sweden, his father Nils Ingemarsson
Linnaeus was a church minister, his mother was
Christina Brodersonia. His way of classifying
organisms, is still used today, all-be-it way more
improved but the basic concept is still the same.
Linnaeus’s idea of Binomial nomenclature (meaning
“The two-term naming system”) is still in use today,
with minimal changes. His most famous book was
Systema Naturae (1735) which was a table that
classified every organism known that the time. In-
fact Linnaeus ended up discovering more
organisms/species due to his research for the book,
and made several editions of it. He died at the age
of 70 on 10th January 1778, in Linnaeus Museum,
Uppsala, Sweden.

3. Linnaeus’s Life Growing-Up.
Growing-up Linnaeus was always fascinated by
deferent plants, he particularly loved to memorize
the Latin names of every plant, his father and him
would often go to their garden, where Nils
(Linnaeus’s father) would tell him about the various
plants. Even with all of his knowledge, Carl
Linnaeus was just an average student in school,
since botany was not considered a “Proper
subject”.

4. Linnaeus's 3 Most Famous Books
Book Year Linnaeus’s Age
Systema Naturae 1735 27 Years
Genera Plantarum 1737 29 Years
Species Plantarum 1753 45 Years

5. Carl Linnaeus’s Timeline
1707
Born
1727
Linnaeus
enrolled at
the University
of Lund, to
study
medicine
1722
He transferred
to Uppsala
University
1723
Linnaeus wrote
a paper, which
impressed his
teachers so
much, that
they decided
to make him a
teacher.
1735
Linnaeus published his
book “The Systema
Naturae”. Also in this
year, he decided to
actually graduate so
Linnaeus switched
universities again,
travelling to the
Netherlands, and
enrolled in the university
of Harderwijk.
1737
Linnaeus published two
more books, one, “The Flora
Lapponica” which was the
first time Linnaeus used his
“Binomial nomenclature
system” and “The Systema
Naturae”.
1747
Linnaeus was
appointed
chief royal
physician in
Sweden.
1753
Linnaeus
published
another book
titled “The
Species
Plantarum”.
1758
Carl Linnaeus
was knighted,
so he took
the name of
Carl Von
Linne.
1777
Carl Linnaeus died
after suffering a
third stroke.

6. Linnaeus’s Family
Carl Linnaeus had 4 siblings, 1 brother and 3 sisters, Linnaeus
was the eldest of his siblings, his brother’s name was Samuel
Linnaeus, his sisters were Emerentia Linnaeus, Sophia Juliana
Linnaeus and Anna Maria Linnaeus. Carl Linnaeus was
married to Sara Elisabeth Moraea and had 7 children, 2 sons,
Carl Linnaeus the Younger, and Johannes von Linné,, 5
daughters, Sara Christina von Linné, Sophia von Linné, Lovisa
von Linné, Sara Magdalena von Linné and Elisabeth Christina
von Linné.

7. Awards
In his life
 Linnaeus was knighted and granted nobility as Carl von Linné.
After Death
 He has been featured in postage stamps, sculptures, banknotes and many other
things.
 He is also credited as being the father of taxonomy.

8. Facts about Carl Linnaeus
In 1723 Linnaeus wrote
a paper on the
reproduction of plants,
he showed it to his
teacher, they were so
impressed that they
decided that Linnaeus
should be teaching
instead, so he started to
teach at the university
he came to study, even-
though he didn’t have a
degree and was
technically still a
student.
Fact
1
In 1737 the Swedish
government funded an
expedition for Linnaeus to
go to Laplands (the
northern most province of
Sweden) to collect and
document as many
animals and plants as
possible in hopes of
finding a new species,
though the expedition
wasn’t a huge success,
Linnaeus was able to find
100 new species, and his
research also led to his
book titled “The Flora
Lapponica”.
Fact
2 He wasn’t the first to
discover taxonomy,
even though he is
called “The father of
taxonomy”, in-fact
taxonomy had been
around since Greek
times, but Linnaeus
completely changed
the system of
taxonomy, making it
more formalized and
thus usable and
practicle.
Fact
3

9. His Personality
Linnaeus was a very curios and self
obsessed person, because he always
thought very high of himself, he once
said, “No one has been a greater
botanist or zoologist. No one has
written more books, more correctly,
more methodically, from personal
experience. No one has more
completely changed a whole science
and started a new epoch”, this was
how he described himself, and with
good reason, he got become a
teacher even without a degree, he
changed taxonomy a-lot, and he was
knighted, upon many other things.

10. Linnaeus’s Old Age
Linnaeus was teaching at Uppsala
University for years at this point, but
after he had his first stroke in 1774,
Linnaeus was forced to retire from
teaching, and spent the rest of his life
researching on deferent topics, he
suffered another stroke, and at last he
had a third stroke and died on
January 10 1778.

11. Famous Quotes
 “When the spiritual light is concentrated in the brain,
everything else must be sinking in the dark.”
 “When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and
the person loses interest in other things, the
melancholy begins.”
 “If you do not know the names of things, the
knowledge of them is lost, too.”
 -Carl Linnaeus

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