Jean Kickx (1775–1831)

Jean Kickx (9 March 1775 in Brussels – 27 March 1831 in Brussels) Son of Jacques Kickx (d. 1802) and Marie van Esschen (d. 1802) was a Belgian botanist and mineralogist. His son Jean Kickx (1803-1864) and grandson Jean Jacques Kickx (1842-1887) both became professors of botany at the University of Ghent.

He worked as a professor of botany, pharmacy and mineralogy in Brussels, becoming a member of the Royal Belgian Academy in 1817.[1] In 1827 Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier named the genus Kickxia (family Plantaginaceae) in his honor.[2][3]

Principal works
  • "Flora bruxellensis, exhibens characteres generum et specierum plantarum", 1812.
  • "Tentamen Mineralogicum: seu mineralium nova distributio in classes, ordines, genera, species, cum varietatibus et synonimis auctorum, cui additur lexicon mineralogicum in quo artis vocabula exponuntur", 1820.
  • "Accurata descriptio plantarum officinalium et venenatarum tum phanerogamarum tum cryptogamarum, in agro Lovaniensi sponte crescentium", 1827.[4][5]

References
  1. The Mineralogical Record - Library Archived 2015-06-10 at the Wayback Machine Tentamen Mineralogicum
  2. BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
  3. Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings: A Glossary by F. A. Sharr
  4. Google Search (publications)
  5. OCLC Classify (publications)
  6. International Plant Names Index.  J.Kickx.
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