Carl von Linné (son)

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Title page of Supplementum Plantarum

Carl von Linné , also Carl von Linné the Younger and born Carl Linnæus the Younger (born January 20, 1741 in Falun , † November 1, 1783 in Uppsala ), was a Swedish botanist . Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Lf "

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Carl von Linné was the son of the scientist of the same name Carl von Linné . He was born in the house of the father of Linnaeus' wife Sara Elisabeth Morea in Falun. His future was decided at an early stage because he was to become a naturalist like his father. Private tutors were commissioned with his training, including Pehr Löfling , Daniel Rolander , Daniel Solander and Johan Peter Falck . By the age of ten he is said to have known most of the plants in the Uppsala Old Botanical Garden .

Due to the influence of his father, a new position as a demonstrator at the Botanical Garden in Uppsala was created especially for him in 1759 . He described the rarest and most remarkable plants in this university garden in his first work, Plantarum Rariorum Horti Upsaliensis , the first part of which appeared in 1762.

On March 19, 1763 he became an associate professor of botany at Uppsala University . At the same time, he received the remarkable assurance that he would be given his post after the death of his father. It was not until 1765 that he received his doctorate under the chairmanship of Samuel Aurivillius (1721–1767) and then began to hold his own lectures. In October 1777, three months before his father's death, he finally became a full professor of botany.

After the death of his father, Linné finished his manuscript Supplementum Plantarum Systematis Vegetabilium , in which 93 new genera and a total of 1303 species are described. He named some of the new genres after his Swedish compatriots, including Christopher Tärnström , Lars Jonasson Montin (1723–1785), Anders Jahan Retzius , Carl Gustaf Ekeberg (1716–1784), Anders Sparrman and Carl Peter Thunberg . The work could not appear until 1781.

It was Linnaeus' urgent desire to travel to learn about new plants and to publish a new edition of Systema Naturae . With the financial support of Baron Alströmer, he was finally able to fulfill this wish.

In the spring of 1781 he embarked for England and reached London in the course of May . He lived in the house of Joseph Banks . He examined its extensive collection and was particularly interested in the plants from the South Seas . From here he also visited the gardens at Kew , Chelsea and that of the Marquess of Rockingham at Wimbledon . In May 1782 he witnessed the death of Daniel Solander , who also lived in the house of Joseph Banks.

At the end of August 1782, Linnaeus traveled on to France. On his way to Paris he was accompanied by Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet , whom he had met in London. In Paris he met numerous personalities, including Mathurin-Jacques Brisson , René Louiche Desfontaines and Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle . King Louis XVI received him and gave him three large folio volumes with 500 copper engravings .

In Holland he visited Hartekamp and finally reached Leiden via The Hague , where he visited David van Royen . In Amsterdam he met Nicolaas Laurens Burman again, who had studied in Uppsala and introduced him to Maarten Houttuyn .

His further path led him through Germany. He came to Hamburg via Westphalia and Lower Saxony , where he was Paul Dietrich Giseke's guest for 18 days . In Kiel he met Johann Christian Fabricius again, whom he had already met in London, and used his extensive insect collection.

In February 1783 he returned to Uppsala via Copenhagen and Gothenburg . He could no longer use the results of his studies. Carl von Linné the Younger died a few months later of an illness.

Fonts (selection)

  • Decas prima [et secunda] plantarum rariorum Horti Upsaliensis sistens descriptiones & figuras plantarum minus cognitarum , Stockholm 1762–1763.
  • Supplementum plantarum Systematis vegetabilium editionis decimae tertiae, Generum plantarum editionis sextae, et Specierum plantarum editionis secunda . Braunschweig 1781 (online) .

literature

  • David Schulz von Schulzenheim, Christian Heinrich Reichel : Commemorative speech on the honorable Lord, Mr. Carl von Linné: held in the cathedral church in Upsal on November 30, 1783, when the noble family coat of arms of the Linnaeus tribe, extinct on the male side, was smashed. Leipzig 1784.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Carl Linnaeus the Younger in London. The Linnean Society of London, December 18, 2014, accessed February 17, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Linnaeus, Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish botanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Falun
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1783
Place of death Uppsala