Linnaeus became a student at the University of Lund in 1738, but moved in 1742 to Uppsala, where his brother Carl had become a professor the year before.
The following year he moved back to Lund, where he defended his thesis De Wexionia ("On Växjö") on November 30, 1743 and December 10, 1744 in front of Sven Lagerbring.
He received his Magister degree in 1745 and succeeded his father (died 1748) as a priest in Stenbrohult.
In 1750, he married Anna Helena Osander; the couple had twelve children.
[2] He published a book on beekeeping in 1768, Kort men tillförlitelig bijskjötsel.