Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his
ennoblement as
Carl von Linné , was a Swedish
botanist, physician, and
zoologist, who founded the modern system of naming organisms called
binomial nomenclature. He is known by the epithet "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in
Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as (after 1761
Carolus a Linné).