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Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus, engraving from Robert John Thornton's The Temple of Flora (1807).
Carolus Linnaeus received his medical degree in 1735 at the university in the Dutch town of Harderwijk. Shortly after arriving there in May 1735, he completed his examinations and submitted a thesis on the topic of intermittent fevers to earn the degree.1