Carl Linné (also known as Carl von Linné or Carolus Linnaeus) is known as the father of taxonomy.

Linné was born in 1707 at Rashult (Sweden). After studying medicine, he became teacher at the university of Upsala. He died in 1778.

Linné classified plants using as chriteria her sexual organs (flowers), developed the binomial nomenclature, by which we still nominate all living things, and constructed the hierarchic system of classification that group species in genera, genera in orders, orders in classes and classes in kingdoms. He also discovered a lot of new species and compiled in his book Systema Naturae all the species known in its time.

This Linné picture has been made by Sergi Quiñones Oliva (Othello).

More information:

• University of California Museum of Paleontology.
• Frankenstein enciclopedia.
• Holly Cross All Grade Biographies of Scienticists.