"Johann Kaspar Keller was a German botanist and naturalist, a contemporary of Linnaeus, with whom he had a violent verbal confrontation about his new method of classification of living species.
Keller thought that the appropriate method of connecting the Swedish Linnaeus was completely wrong and responded with a challenge, he promised that he would accept his criticism and modified his approach if he had discovered new species numbering more than him within one year .
Keller agreed. He sailed from the port of Hamburg May 17, 1738 aboard the Float Knolle for South America where he thought he had more chances to win, but the expedition proved to be full of unexpected events that made it last much longer than expected. Un'ananconda swallowed his leadership, was captured by a pygmy Tibu and was imprisoned for about due anni, mangiò funghi che lo convinsero di essere la reincarnazione di Ezechiele, fondò una setta religiosa che poteva avere come adepto qualunque tipo di essere vivente.
Johann Kaspar Keller tornò dopo cinque anni provato nel corpo e nella mente, si ritirò nel convento di Offenburg senza dire più una parola e vi rimase fino alla morte avvenuta il 5 dicembre 1753.
Nel frattempo Linneo aveva usato il suo nome per classificare una erbaccia infestante dai fiori maleodoranti."
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