Linnaeus, Carolus (1707-1778)

Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist who introduced a standard method of naming and classifying living things.
Linnaeus spent much of his childhood collecting plants and animals before studying to become a doctor at the University of Uppsala.
In 1741 he was appointed Professor of medicine and Botany at Uppsala, and so spent more time studying the Ecology and distribution of plants.
He described nearly 8000 plant species and about 4400 animal species (almost everything known to Europeans at the time) and he gave each a scientific name in two parts.
For examples, he called the wolf canis lupus and the jackal canis aureus.
Canis is the genus to which the animals belong, and so the scientific name shows that the animal are related.

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