A GENEALOGY OF LINNvEUS. 



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BENGE INGEMARSON, 



PEASANT IN THE PARISH OF HWITARYD, 



Had issue Ingemar Bengtson, born in 1633, farmer of the ma- 

 nor of Erickstad. 



This Ingemar Bengtson was the grandfather of our celebrated 

 LiNNiEus. Nils or Nicholas Linn^us, his son, took his sirname 

 from the same linden tree, from which the families of the Tilianders 

 and theLiN DELI USES had borrowed theirs. He was born in 1674, as- 

 sumed his clei'ical fun6lions in 1704, was made vicar of StenbroliuU 

 in 1705, and in 1708 re6lor of the same place, where he died May i2th5 

 1748. He had been married to Christina Brodf.rson, the daugh- 

 ter of his predecessor. On the 12th of May, 1707, he had issue of 

 her at Rashuii in Smaland^ 



CHARLES LINNyEUS, 



who went to the school at Wexico in 1717, frequented the college 

 there in 1724, studied at Lund in 1727, went to the university of Upsal 

 in 1728, became lecturer in botany for Dean Rudbkck in 1731, took 

 his degree as Doftor of Medicine at Harderwyk in 1735, ^^as elected 

 first President of the Royal Academy of Stockholm in 1739, appointed 

 botanist to the King of Sweden, and pliysician to the admiraliy in 1740, 

 professor of physic and botany at Upsal in 1741, archiater or dean 

 of the university in 1747, created knight of the order oF ihc P(;!ar Star 

 ifi 1753, ennobled in 1756, and died at Upsal January lOih, 7778. 



2. His 



