Råshult

{{Short description|Settlement in Älmhult, Sweden}}

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Råshult is a village just north of Älmhult in Kronoberg County, Småland, Sweden. It is notable as the birthplace of the seminal biologist and "father of modern taxonomy",{{cite journal|author1-link=Charles Calisher|last1=Calisher|first1=CH|title=Taxonomy: what's in a name? Doesn't a rose by any other name smell as sweet? |journal=Croatian Medical Journal |date=2007 |volume=48|issue=2|pages=268–270|pmid=17436393|pmc=2080517}} Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). In Råshult there is also a memorial to him.{{cite book|author=Wilfrid Blunt| author-link = Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt|title=The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus|year=2001|publisher=Frances Lincoln Publishers|isbn=978-0-7112-1841-3|page=14}}