The Swedish Linnaeus Society (

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''Svenska Linnésällskapet'') is a Swedish

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devoted to the study of the 18th century naturalist

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his Nobility#Ennoblement, ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalise ...

. It was founded at a meeting taking place at Hammarby, the country house of Linnaeus outside

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, on May 23, 1917, the 210th birthday of Carl Linnaeus. In 1918 it took over the old botanical garden in Uppsala,

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, and from 1918 until 1923 restored it according to Linnaeus' own plans and specifications in his published work ''Hortus Upsaliensis'' from 1745. The care for the garden was taken over by

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in 1977. The society still runs the Linnaeus Museum in the 17th-century house adjacent to the garden, where Linnaeus once lived. The yearbook of the society, ''Svenska Linnésällskapets Årsskrift'', has been published since 1918. In addition, it has republished some of Linnaeus's own publications. In cooperation with, among others, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Uppsala University and the

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, the society is involved in the digital publication of the correspondence of Linnaeus.

External links

The Swedish Linnaeus Society
official website
The Linnaean correspondence
publication project Carl Linnaeus

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

Organizations established in 1917 1917 establishments in Sweden Uppsala University {{Sweden-org-stub

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