Talk:Carl Linnaeus/Archive 3

Birth name
We are told in the Childhood section that Linneus's father was Nicolaus Ingemarsson, "who later adopted the family name Linnaeus". This must mean that Carl Linneus's name at birth was Carl Ingemarsson. Should the lead para therefore not begin: "Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 10 January 1778), born Carl Ingemarsson, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné...". It might also be useful to include an explanation of why the family name changed, if that is known. Thoughts anyone? Richard New Forest (talk) 09:28, 15 May 2021 (UTC)


 * It's dealt with in the last part of the "childhood" section actually :) Although since patronymic surnames were in use back then, the name in quesiton would be Nilsson, as noted already EditorInTheRye (talk) 09:35, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Carl was not born Carl Ingemarsson. Nils Linnaeus was born Nils Ingemarsson, and changed his name to Nils Linnaeus as a uni student. Thus Carl was born Carl Linnaeus. At least, that is what I understand from the Early Life section. Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI converse &#124; fings wot i hav dun 15:06, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 June 2020
Please acknowledge the racist undertones of Linnaeus "classification" work on humans. During the 18th Century "Enlightenment Period" in Europe, racist ideologies were put forward under the auspices of science, starting with Linnaeus. Racism was ingrained in society during that time period. Saying his motives and "classifications" of people where not motivated by racist beliefs and ideology ignores the context of that time along side his overtly racist language and descriptions. He contributed greatly to the field of Biology, but was also racist. These facts are not mutually exclusive. Please update. For further details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism#Carl_Linnaeus Hefroehlich (talk) 18:56, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. If it was ingrained in society, then it's not particularly worthy of mention here, see WP:PRESENTISM. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 20:12, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
 * There was a very notable controversy in Sweden regarding Linnaeus' ties to scientific racism during the summer of 2020, as a number of petitions demanded that statues of him be removed across the country. The issue of presentism doesn't extend to this controversy, so mention of this should be included in the "Commemoration" section! Lindra2 (talk) 17:22, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

I would like to provide an additional reference as to the human classification of Linnaeus.

Svensson Mats E. 2015. How Linnaeus classified humans: why red, white, yellow and black people were assigned particular temperaments. Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology 17/2012. p.303-315. Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.17875/gup2015-888.

It provides a plausible explanation to his attributions of temperaments according to skin color. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matssven (talk • contribs) 22:21, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Carl linnaeus
His father Nills ignemaso linnaeus is an amateur botanist .He wanted to give the children standard education 81.77.49.18 (talk) 07:02, 25 January 2023 (UTC)

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Carl linnaeus was given the opportunity to plant in their  large garden. He was given a private lesson teacher which he found dull.The teachers expected him to be good at Greek, etc but he was not  a teacher who discovered his love for plants and talked to his parents to send him to medical school in age 21 he was in university  the parents were mad at him because he did not study theology. Meanwhile in the university one of the teachers saw his notes and saw that he knew botany than he did 81.77.49.18 (talk) 07:13, 25 January 2023 (UTC)