CHAPTER XIV 
linne’s benefactors and friends 
There can be few persons of whom it can be said as 
of Linne, that he had no personal enemy, and still 
fewer, who, .through all the scenes of life, have been 
so fortunate as he to meet with warm-hearted bene¬ 
factors, who, impressed with wonder at his genius and 
splendid scientific works, felt themselyes bound to 
him with affection and respect by his sympathetic 
personality. Among those whom he had nearest to 
his heart may be named Carl Gustaf Tessin and 
Abraham Back. 
How Linne had to thank Tessin for his first 
successes in Stockholm has already been told (p. 176). 
His eagerness to work for Linne’s advancement was 
no hasty flame, soon slackening, but continued to 
burn as clearly all his life. It was he who was 
responsible for Linne’s appointment as Professor, 
and it was his influence at Court which led to Linne’s 
receiving the title of Archiater and the Order of the 
Polar Star. The admiration and affection he cherished 
for Linne were so great and so generally known, that 
some of their friends in 1746 resolved to honour them 
both by striking a medal with Linne’s bust on the 
obverse, and a Latin inscription on the reverse, which 
stated that C. Ekeblad, A. Hopken, N. Palmstjerna, 
and C. Harleman, dedicated the said portrait to Carl 
Gustaf Tessin and immortality. 
Not satisfied with the ordinary expressions of 
gratitude to “ My most gracious Master,” “ My great 
Apollo,” “ Mine and Svea’s welfare,” Linne felt 
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