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1707–1778
Carl Linnaeus / Carl von Linné
Carl Linnaeus · 瑞典
18th-century Swedish botanist, founder of modern biological taxonomy (1707–1778).
Born in Råshult, Småland, he studied successively at Lund University and Uppsala University, and in 1732 travelled to Lapland on an expedition; his *Systema Naturae* was published in 1735, and *Species Plantarum* (1753) and the tenth edition of *Systema Naturae* (1758) established the binomial system of "genus name + specific epithet"; from 1741 he was professor at Uppsala University.
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Places in their life
Birthplace Småland; place of activity and burial Uppsala (buried in Uppsala Cathedral).
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Cultural significance
Biological naming still takes his works as its starting point; the Linnean Society (London) is the world's oldest extant biological society.