# Linnaeus takes the Uppsala professorship of medicine and botany

Date: 1741

## The fact

In 1741 [Carl Linnaeus](/people/carl-linnaeus) was appointed professor at Uppsala, taking medicine and botany, with the university garden as a teaching instrument. It is not the 1735 Leiden pamphlet and not a modern medical school. Court patronage that won the chair is a split worsening row, not a denial of the teaching office.

## Context

Olof Rudbeck the Younger’s world had faded. Nils Rosén took the other medical chair; Linnaeus took botany and dietetics. Swedish physicians learned plants as drugs in that garden. Students who later became apostles were trained here. Their colonial collecting is other rows. Do not treat later Linnaeus Gardens tourism as this appointment.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Uppsala University’s portal at https://www.uu.se/en is the official home of the chair Linnaeus held. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus independently dates the 1741 Uppsala professorship.

Official or archival record: Uppsala University — portal (https://www.uu.se/en; Uppsala University).

## Significance

Health-teaching path, modest weight. High confidence on the 1741 office.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. The chair is not the ennoblement and not Species Plantarum. Mixed effects of Linnaeus takes the Uppsala professorship of medicine and botany are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Linnaeus became Uppsala professor in 1741. Not established: a unique patient series cured by garden herbs under his hand. Contribution is recorded as He occupied the medical-botany chair and the university garden. The crown and faculty appointed; students demonstrated plants. The impact note is A public medical chair that taught materia medica and the garden is a health-system-capacity path of modest weight. The dated heading stays Linnaeus takes the Uppsala professorship of medicine and botany on 1741-05-05, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Printers, unnamed clerks, and later editors may appear in the same file without becoming this instrument. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Shared responsibility is part of Linnaeus takes the Uppsala professorship of medicine and botany. Naming Carl Linnaeus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1741-05-05 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The contribution type is direct. The attached driver is health-system-capacity. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Carl Linnaeus: https://factrail.ai/people/carl-linnaeus

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.uu.se/en
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carolus-Linnaeus

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-uppsala-chair-1741