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Carl Linnaeus. This list encompasses students of the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), professor of medicine at Uppsala University from 1741 until 1777, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy and also had a deep indirect influence through his many students.
Carl Linnaeus [a] (23 May 1707 [note 1] – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, [3] [b] 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". [4]
While still alive, Carl Linnaeus the Younger had inherited his father's extensive scientific collections of books, specimens, and correspondence, and he had worked to preserve them. In October 1784 his mother, Sara Elisabeth (1716–1806), sold the library and herbarium to the English botanist Sir James Edward Smith (1759–1828).
Together they had seven children, five of whom (a son and four daughters) survived to adulthood. [6] Linnaeus's Hammarby. In 1758, Carl Linnaeus bought the Hammarby estate (today Linnaeus's Hammarby) as his family's summer residence. [9] After her husband's death in 1778, Sara Elisabeth ruled the estate for 30 years until her own death.
It has two derivations, both of which are linked to the famous 18th-century Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus, who was ennobled as Carl von Linné later in life. Primarily, people have named their children in his honor; [1] Linnaeus and Linné have been used as given names, usually for boys, and simple modification makes the name gender female.
Linné married major Carl Fredrik Bergencrantz in 1764 and had two children. [1] However, she left her husband and moved back with her parents a couple of years after her wedding because she had been subjected to spousal abuse: she died at the age of 39, and her children also died before adulthood. Her mother blamed her early death upon the ...
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh holds a monument to Linnaeus [e 2] designed in 1778 by the noted Scottish architect Robert Adam.It was originally erected in the Botanic Garden on Leith Walk in 1779 by John Hope, Regius Keeper of the Garden, who was the first to introduce the Linnean system of classification to Scotland. [6]
Lists from 1753, 1755, and 1767 provide some insight into the herbarium's contents, but the collection was not static. Linnaeus continually added to it, and it also suffered losses over the years, making it difficult to identify all original specimens. [5] After Linnaeus's death in 1778, his herbarium passed to his son, Carl Linnaeus the Younger.