Carl Linnaeus
1707 – 1778 Swedish botanist, naturalist
The naturalist who created the modern system for naming species.
- Religion
- A devout Lutheran who saw cataloguing nature as revealing God's design.
- Affiliations
- Professor at Uppsala; founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. No secret society.
Linnaeus devised the two-name Latin system, genus and species, still used to classify every living thing. His Systema Naturae organized the natural world into a clear hierarchy. He is the father of modern taxonomy.
In the timeline
- 1735 Linnaeus divides humans into ranked races mentioned