Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
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He invented the two-name system every organism on earth still carries — genus, species — and then spent decades roaming Sweden's forests to pin those labels on whatever grew or crawled.
Born in 1707 in the Småland countryside, son of a curate, Linnaeus studied at Uppsala and began lecturing on botany by 1730. Between 1735 and 1738 he lived abroad, publishing the first edition of his *Systema Naturae* in the Netherlands — the work that formalised binomial nomenclature. Back in Sweden he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala, and through the 1740s was sent on expeditions across the country to find and classify plants and animals. He continued collecting and publishing volumes through the 1750s and 1760s. By his death in 1778 he was one of Europe's most acclaimed sc…
Sourced, dated quotes from Carl Linnaeus
I thank Providence who has guided my destinies, that I now live ; nay, that I live happier than a king of Persia.
Nature does not make any leaps. All plants show an affinity with those around them, according to their geographical location.
If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes.
No one has any right to be angry with me, if I think fit to enumerate man among the quadrapeds.
We say there are as many genera as there are similarly constituted fructifications of different natural species.
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