Uppsala University
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Uppsala University is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries.
University Hall
Gustavianum, built 1622–1625 and now a museum.
Anders Celsius, astronomer and physicist.
King Gustav III visits the university in 1786
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
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…gone to work on a program for improving aspects of the university. He planted the first botanical garden, the one which would eventually be tended by Carl Linnaeus and is kept today as a museum of 18th-century botany under the name Linnéträdgården ("the Linnaean Garden"). With the patronage of the university…
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