Carl von Linné

**Carl Linnaeus**
	Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778) ritrato de el 1775
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Name in native language	Carl von Linné;
Date of birth	23 May 1707; Råshult; Carl Nilsson Linnaeus
Date of death	10 January 1778; Linnaeus Hammarby
Place of burial	Uppsala Cathedral;
Work period (start)	1722;
Work period (end)	1778;
Country of citizenship	Sweden;
Educated at	University of Harderwijk (Doctor of Medicine, medicine, 1735–1735); Lund University (medicine, 1727–); Uppsala University (medicine, 1728–);
Doctoral advisor	Olof Rudbeck the Younger; Johannes Gorter (University of Harderwijk, 1735);
Doctoral student	Fredrik Hasselquist (1747); Carl Peter Thunberg (1767); Anders Sparrman (1768); Peter Forsskål; Anton Rolandsson Martin; Alexander von Karamyschew; Matvey Afonin;
Occupation	geologist; professor; botanist; physician; autobiographer; biologist; mycologist; pteridologist; bryologist; zoologist; entomologist; ornithologist; naturalist; arachnologist; mineralogist;
Employer	Uppsala University;
Member of	Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences; German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; Royal Society (Fellow of the Royal Society, 1753–); Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1739–); Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (honorary member, 1753–); Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters; Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters; French Academy of Sciences; American Philosophical Society;
Field of work	medicine; natural history; botany; natural science;
Native language	Swedish;
Family	Linné family;
Father	Nils Ingemarsson Linnaeus;
Mother	Christina Brodersonia;
Sibling	Anna Maria Linnæ; Emerentia Branting; Sofia Juliana Collin; Samuel Linnaeus;
Child	Carl Linnaeus the Younger; Elisabeth Christina von Linné; Lovisa von Linné; Sara Christina von Linné;
Spouse	Sara Elisabeth Moræa;
Work location	Uppsala; Stockholm;
Notable work	Systema Naturae; Species Plantarum; Genera Plantarum; Fundamenta Botanica; Critica Botanica; Bibliotheca Botanica; Amoenitates Academicae; Hortus Cliffortianus; Musa Cliffortiana; Methodus; Praeludia Sponsaliorum Plantarum;
Award received	Knight of the Order of the Polar Star (1753);
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English: Carl Linnaeus, widely known by the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), aka Carl von Linné, aka Carlos Linneo, was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for modern biological nomenclature.

Portraits

Painting by J.H. Scheffel
Painting by Per Krafft
Painting by Alexander Roslin
Cleaned up version of Alexander Roslin's painting
Carl Linnaeus dressed as a Laplander
From The Temple of Flora

Works

Cover of Systema Naturae, 1st edition (1735).
Cover of Systema Naturae, 11th edition (1760/MDCCLX), printed in Germany.
Cover of Systema Naturae, 11th edition (1760/MDCCLX), printed in Germany.
The Animal Kingdom, from the first edition of Systema Naturae (1735).
Cover of Flora Svecica: exhibens plantas per regnum Sveciæ ... (1745)
Page of Systema Naturae (6th ed., 1748) relative to Quadrupedia.
Page 105 of Systema Naturae, 13th edition (1767), printed in Vienna.
Page 837 of Systema Naturae, 10th edition (1758), explaining the sexual system.
Cover of Species plantarum (1753).
Cover of Species plantarum (1753),
rotated and trimmed.
Drawing of Systema Sexuale
Drawing of Systema Sexuale (larger)
Cover of Inebriantia (1762)

Places

Råshult in Småland, where he was born
Råshult, closer
Råshult, monument behind the building
Råshult in the winter
Linnaeus's house in Uppsala
Linnaeus's botanic garden in Uppsala
The gravestone of Linné and his son in the cathedral of Uppsala
Epitaph of Carolus Linnaeus, Uppsala Cathedral.

Monuments and sculptures

Statue in Lund
Statue in Lund (summer)
Statue at the Royal Academy of Art, London
Statue by Johan Niclas Byström in the Uppsala Botanical Garden, photographed while temporarily placed in Carolina Rediviva.
Royal Botanical Garden, Madrid (Spain).
Real Jardín Botánico Juan Carlos I, Alcalá de Henares (Spain).
Linnés Garden in Uppsala
Botanical Garden, Wrocław (Poland)
Stockholm
Linnaeus
Orto botanico di Palermo
Skansen in Stockholm