biography
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Linnaeus, Carolus
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Swed Carl von Linné
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pronunciation:
[linayus]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1707–78)
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| biography:
| Botanist, born in Råshult, SE Sweden. He studied at Lund and Uppsala, where in 1730 he was appointed a botany assistant. He travelled widely on botanical exploration, and is the founder of modern taxonomic botany. His Systema naturae fundamenta botanica (1735), Genera plantarum (1737), and Species plantarum (1753), expound his influential system of classification, based on plant sex organs, and in which names consist of generic and specific elements, with plants grouped hierarchically into genera, classes, and orders. He practised as a physician in Stockholm, and in 1742 became professor of botany at Uppsala. He was ennobled in 1757. |
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