Carolus Linnaeus(1707-1778)

Carolus Linnaeus (Karl Von Linne) was born in Sweden. As a child he developed an interest in plants. On persuasion he joined the medical school, though his parents wanted him to be a minister. Linne continued with the collection, study and discriotion of plants. After completing medical degree in 1739, he went to Holland and became the personal physician of a wealthy government official. There he also studies and described plants of his employer's garden. At the age of 22 he published a paper on sexuality of plants. leter he published 14 treatise and also brought out the famout Systema Naturae from which all fundamental taxonimic researches emanated. His system of classification was a simple scheme ofr arranging plants for identifying them again. Karl von Linne wih his lectures and publications in latin became Carolous Linnaeus.