Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné, 1707–1778) is one of the world’s best-known scientists. He was a multi talented scientist that could call himself physician, botanist, geologist, zoologist and philosopher. He travelled, he observed, recorded, tested, analysed and published a large variety of manuscripts on many different topics. He sought a universal classification of all creation, animal, vegetable and mineral. He spent more than 50 years in Uppsala and some 300 years later we we will follow in his footsteps!