A GENEALOGY OF LINNAEUS, 
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BENGE INGEM ARSON, 
PEASANT IN THE PARISH OF HWITARYD, 
Had issue Incemar Bengtson, born in 1633, farmer of the ma- 
nor of Erickstad. 
This Incemar Bengtson was the grandfather of our celebrated 
Li nnjeus. Nils or Nicholas Linnaus, his son, took his sirname 
from the same linden tree, from which the families of the Tilianders 
and theLiN deliuses had borrowed theirs. He was born in 1674, as- 
sumed his clerical fun&ions in 1704, was made vicar of Stenbrohult 
in 1705, and in 1708 reftor of the same place, where he died May 12th, 
1748. He had been married to Christina Broderson, the daugh- 
ter of his predecessor. On the 12th of May, 1707, he had issue of 
her at Rashult in Smaland , 
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CHARLES LINNAEUS, 
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 DoQor of Medicine at Harderwyk in 1735, was elected 
first President of the Royal Academy of Stockholm in 1739, appointed 
botanist to the King of Sweden , and physician to the admiralty in 174°! 
professor of physic and botany at Upsal in 1741, archiater or dean 
of the university in 1747, created knight of the order of the Polar Star 
ip 1753, ennobled in 1756, and died at Upsal January 10th, 7778. 
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