Carl Linnaeus
23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778
Swedish botanist and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms, and is known as the father of taxonomy.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Carl Linnaeus.
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) Overlapped 71 years →
- John Wesley (1703–1791) Overlapped 71 years →
- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) Overlapped 71 years →
- Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782) Overlapped 71 years →
- Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) Overlapped 71 years →
- Voltaire (1694–1778) Overlapped 71 years →
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Appointed professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala University
1741
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Published Species Plantarum
1753
The work that became the starting point of modern botanical nomenclature.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
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Ennobled as Carl von Linné
1761
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