The Linnaean Garden or Linnaeus' Garden (in Swedish

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 Linnéträdgården) is the oldest of the botanical garden

Botanical garden

A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...

s belonging to Uppsala University

Uppsala University

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 in Sweden

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. It has been restored and is kept as an 18th century botanical garden, according to the specifications of Carolus Linnaeus

Carolus Linnaeus

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The garden was originally planned and planted by Olaus Rudbeck

Olaus Rudbeck

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, professor of medicine, in 1655. Rudbeck also built the house adjacent to the garden. At the end of the 17th century it had about 1,800 different species, but was damaged in the Uppsala city fire 1702. Linnaeus became responsible for the garden in 1741 and had it rearranged according to his own ideas, documented in his work Hortus Upsaliensis (1748).
After the gardens of Uppsala Castle

Uppsala Castle

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 had been donated to the university by King Gustav III

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 to serve as a new botanical garden, the old one was left to decay. It was bought by the Swedish Linnaean Society in 1917 and restored according to the detailed description in the Hortus Upsaliensis. The garden was later taken over by the university, while the Linnaean Museum in the house in which Linnaeus had his home is still run by the Society. It is now one of two satellite gardens of the larger University of Uppsala Botanic Garden near Uppsala Castle. The second satellite is Linnaeus Hammarby

Linnaeus Hammarby

Linnaeus Hammarby is one of three botanical gardens belonging to Uppsala University in Sweden. It was the former summer home of Carolus Linnaeus and his family.-See also:...

, the former summer home of Linnaeus and his family.