page_title: Carl Linnaeus
section_title: Influences and economic beliefs
hierarchical_section_title: Carl Linnaeus / Influences and economic beliefs
caption_attribution_description: English: Linne statue on University of Chicago campus. After Frithiof Kjellberg (Swedish, 1836-1885): Carl von Linné Monument, 1891, (copy of the original located in the Humlegarden in Stockholm), unveiled in Lincoln Park on May 23, 1891, anniversary of Linné's birth, moved to Midway Plaisance (South of E. 59th Street between S. Ellis Avenue and S. University Avenue) in 1976.&#91;1&#93; Next to the Harper Memorial Library, University of Chicago, Illinois, United States. ↑ Chicago Park District
context_page_description: Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus.
  Linnaeus was born in the countryside of Småland in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his Systema Naturae in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect and classify animals, plants, and minerals, while publishing several volumes. He was one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe at the time of his death.
  Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau sent him the message: "Tell him I know no greater man on earth."
context_section_description: Linnaeus's applied science was inspired not only by the instrumental utilitarianism general to the early Enlightenment, but also by his adherence to the older economic doctrine of Cameralism. Additionally, Linnaeus was a state interventionist.  He supported tariffs, levies, export bounties, quotas, embargoes, navigation acts, subsidised investment capital, ceilings on wages, cash grants, state-licensed producer monopolies, and cartels.
caption: Statue on University of Chicago campus
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