Dear Harry,
to make the matter more complex the title page of Linné 1757 shows the name
in its latin version as "Caroli a Linné".
You may retrieve the scans of all pages of most of the Linné works at the
famous site of "AnimalBase" of the library of Goettingen. It will give
access to works before 1800 in which new taxa are described. The link to
Linné is:
http://dz-srv1.sub.uni-goettingen.de/sub/digbib/loader?ht=VIEW&did=D215231
A search function at:
http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/search
leeds to all other already digitized works, eg. Rumphius, Aldrovandi.
The AnimalBase is a great site on rare old conchological literature as the
Goettingen library has the biggest inventory on old literure in Germany. The
project leader of the AnimalBase, Francisco Welter-Schultes, is a
malacologist.
Best regards
Bernd Sahlmann
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> Von: "Harry G. Lee" <[log in to unmask]>
> An: [log in to unmask]
> Betreff: Re: Linné vs Linnaeus
> Datum: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:11:46 -0500
>
> Dear Paolo,
>
> The important thing is that readers know what you're writing about, and I
> don't think there's any ambiguity in the way your ms read. Purists,
> however, do have a point about the change in Linnaeus' name and proper
> attribution of authorship.
>
> Linnaean molluscan taxa were created in 1758, 1767, and 1771 (see
> abbreviated references below), and the author's name changed in 1762 (see
> appendix), so strictly speaking, it's:
>
> Nerita peloronta Linnaeus, 1758
> Chione cancellata (Linné, 1767)
> Cypraea cervus Linné, 1771
>
> Maybe Jim and Linda Brunner, who built a world-class shell show exhibit on
> "Linnean shells," can give us a count of how many valid molluscan taxa,
> shelled or otherwise, originated in the 1767 and 1771 works, which had far
> fewer than the Tenth Edition. I, for one would like to see the title
> pages
> of the two to help understand proper attribution - do they show the author
> to be Linnaeus or Linné? Dick Petit; Scott Jordan???
>
> The master was born and spent most of his life as Carl Linnaeus. It was
> customary to Latinize surnames in Sweden - for real, not a quirky
> affectation at all - in that ("pre-Linnean") era. He Latinized his first
> name to Carolus in the 1758 work (and many others) probably because the
> works were written in Latin. It wasn't until 1761 that he was ennobled and
> stuck with the more exalted ("non-binominal") handle Carl von Linné.
>
> "The name of Linnaeus: origins and various forms Carl Linnaeus's paternal
> grandfather, like most Swedish peasants and farmers of his time, had no
> surname and was known, in accordance with the old Scandinavian name
> system,
> as Ingemar Bengtsson, being the son of Bengt Ingermarsson. When his son,
> Carl's father, Nils Ingemarsson (1674-1733), went to the university of
> Lund, he had to provide himself with a surname for registration purposes.
> He invented the name Linnaeus in allusion to a large and ancient tree of
> the small-leaved linden (Tilia cordata Miller, T.europaea L. in part),
> known in the Smĺland dialect as "linn", which grew on the family property
> known in the 17th century as Linnegard.
>
> "Other branches of the family took the names Lindelius and Tiliander from
> the same famous tree. The name Linnaeus was thus of Latin form from the
> beginning. Linnaeus, having been ennobled in 1761, first took the name of
> Carl von Linné in 1762, by which time he had published all of his most
> important works." (Stearn and Bridson, p. 5)
>
> Linnaeus, Carolus, 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae ... editio
> decima, reformata. vol. 1. Regnum animale. Stockholm.
> Linné, Carl von /Linnaeus, Carolus, 1767. Systema naturae per regna tria
> naturae ... editio duodecima, reformata. Stockholm.
> Linné, Carl/Linnaeus, Carolus, 1771. Mantissa plantarum altera generum
> editionis 6 et speciarum editionis 2. Regnum animalis appendix. Stockholm.
> Stearn, W. T. & Bridson, G. Carl Linnaeus 1707-1778, a bicentenary guide
> to
> the Career and achievements of Linnaeus and the collections of the Linnean
> Society, 32 pp., London, Linnean Society, 1978, ISBN 0 9506207 0 X.
>
> Harry
>
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