Jean Kickx (1775–1831) Explained

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]}

Notes and References

1. http://www.minrec.org/libdetail.asp?id=748 The Mineralogical Record - Library
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068777#page/562/mode/1up BHL
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=HN3jTA7KbpMC&pg=PA40 Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings: A Glossary
4. https://www.google.ie/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Jean+Kickx%22 Google Search
5. http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/ClassifyDemo?search-author-txt=%22Kickx%2C+Jean%2C+1775-1831.%22 OCLC Classify