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Who helped pay for Carolus Linnaeusâs medical studies in the Netherlands?
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Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus, engraving from Robert John Thornton's The Temple of Flora (1807).
Carolus Linnaeus received an annual stipend to help cover his medical studies in the Netherlands through an agreement with the father of his friend and fellow student, Claes Sohlberg. Sohlbergâs father, who served as the royal inspector of the Falun copper mine, was impressed by Linnaeusâs botanical and mineralogical abilities. In exchange for this financial support, Linnaeus agreed to take young Sohlberg with him on the trip and serve as his academic mentor.1