biography
pronunciation:
[ah(r)taydee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1705–35)
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| biography:
| Swedish ichthyologist and botanist, known as ‘the father of ichthyology’. He wrote Ichthyologia, a systematic study of fishes, edited by Linnaeus, his closest friend, and published in 1738. The classification of animals and plants in his work inspired Linnaeus. |
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