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 …

Nov 26, 2025 · 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 …

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 …

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 …

Linnaeus suffered from illness towards the end of his career and just a few years after retiring, died on 10 January, 1778. Not only is Linnaeus considered the “Father of Taxonomy”, he was also a pioneer …

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

Carolus Linnaeus designed a hierarchical taxonomic system for naming and classifying plants and animals. His system gave each organism a two-term name that was derived from its unique defining …

In 1758, the great Swedish classifier Carl Linnaeus urged every scientist to give join him in using a universal and simplified system of classification. He had just published a new text re-naming every …

Linnaeus (1707–1778; ennobled Carl von Linné) is one of the most famous Uppsala University professors ever. In 1735 he published Systema Naturae, an inventory of the three kingdoms of …

He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus …