Carl von Linné

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English: Carl Linnaeus, widely known by the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), aka Carl von Linné, aka Carlos Linneo, was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for modern biological nomenclature.

[edit] Portraits

Painting by J.H. Scheffel	Painting by Per Krafft	Painting by Alexander Roslin	Cleaned up version of Alexander Roslin's painting

	Carl Linnaeus dressed as a Laplander	From The Temple of Flora

[edit] Works

Cover of Systema Naturae, 1st edition (1735).	Cover of Systema Naturae, 11th edition (1760/MDCCLX), printed in Germany.	Cover of Systema Naturae, 11th edition (1760/MDCCLX), printed in Germany.	The Animal Kingdom, from the first edition of Systema Naturae (1735).
Page of Systema Naturae (6th ed., 1748) relative to Quadrupedia.	Page 105 of Systema Naturae, 13th edition (1767), printed in Vienna.	Page 837 of Systema Naturae, 10th edition (1758), explaining the sexual system.	Cover of Species plantarum (1753).
Cover of Species plantarum (1753), rotated and trimmed.	Drawing of Systema Sexuale‎	Drawing of Systema Sexuale (larger)

[edit] Places

Råshult in Småland, where he was born	Råshult, closer	Råshult, monument behind the building	Råshult in the winter
Linnaeus's house in Uppsala	Linnaeus's botanic garden in Uppsala	The gravestone of Linné and his son in the cathedral of Uppsala	Epitaph of Carolus Linnaeus, Uppsala Cathedral.

Linnaeus's country house at Hammarby

[edit] Monuments and sculptures

Statue in Lund	Statue in Lund (summer)	Statue at the Royal Academy of Art, London	Statue by Johan Niclas Byström in the Uppsala Botanical Garden, photographed while temporarily placed in Carolina Rediviva.
Royal Botanical Garden, Madrid (Spain).	Linnés Garden in Uppsala	Botanical Garden, Wrocław (Poland)	Stockholm
Linnaeus Orto botanico di Palermo