<Tr> <Th> Author abbrev . (zoology) </Th> <Td> Linnaeus </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Signature </Th> </Tr> <P> Carl Linnaeus (/ lɪˈniːəs, lɪˈneɪəs /; 23 May 1707--10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (Swedish pronunciation: (ˈkɑːɭ ˈfɔnː lɪˈneː) (listen)), was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who formalised 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 Carolus Linnæus (after 1761 Carolus a Linné). </P> <P> 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 a 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, and published several volumes . At the time of his death, he was one of the most acclaimed scientists in Europe . </P>

Who is known as the father of taxonomy