Carolus linnaeus classification system

Linnaeus, Carolus (1707 - 1778)

Carolus Linnaeus (or Carl von Linné) was born on May 23 1707, and died on January 10 1778. He was a Swedish scientist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy.

As a boy Linnaeus was to be groomed for life as a churchman, as his father and maternal grandfather were, but he showed little enthusiasm for the profession. His interest in botany, though, impressed a physician from his town and he was sent to study at the university of Lund, transferring to Uppsala after a year.

During this time Linnaeus became convinced that in the stamens and pistils of flowers lay the basis for the classification of plants, and he wrote a short work on the subject that earned him the postion of adjunct professor.

In 1732 the Academy of Sciences at Uppsala financed his expedition to explore Lapland, then virtually unknown.

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The result of this was the Flora Laponica published in 1737.

Thereafter Linnaeus moved to the continent. While in the