Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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Johann Friedrich Gmelin was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Carl Linnaeus
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Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
…in the Albani cemetery with his wife Rosine Louise Gmelin (1755–1828, née Schott). Johann Friedrich Gmelin when young became a respected colleague of Carl Linnaeus and collected plants in Persia on his behalf. Later in life he published several textbooks in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceutical science, mineralogy…
Portrait by Alexander Roslin, 1775
Birthplace at Råshult
Örtaboken (Herb book), an early Linnaeus manuscript, 1725
Statue as a university student in Lund, by Ansgar Almquist