A 1610 portrait of Carl von Linné by Alexander Roslin in 1775, oil on canvas. Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who formalised the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature. He is known by the epithet "father of modern taxonomy"

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