Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (/l??ni??s, l??ne??s/; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linn? (Swedish pronunciation:?[?k??? ?f?n? l??ne?]?( listen)), 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". Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linn?us (after 1761 Carolus a Linn?). Linnaeus was born in the countryside of Sm?land, in southern Sweden.