Carl Linnaeus

Born

May 23, 1707

Died

January 10, 1778 (aged 70)

Known as

botanist, physician, autobiographer, biologist, mycologist, pteridologist

Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as Carolus a Linné.

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