Carl von Linné

This week Carl von Linné would have turned 300 years old. So Sweden is celebrating his birthday and will continue doing that for the rest of the year. Now everybody is talking about him and what he was doing for science. But I can’t remember that we talked that much about him in school or even at the university when we learned about flowers, animals or stones. Makes me wonder why… Do we only talk about people when it is something special to celebrate?
An interesting aspect to things is the fact that I actually think that Linné is more famous in other countries than what he is in his own country Sweden . Why do we hide these splendid people and their discoveries? When we still use their knowledge today.