Jean Kickx


Jean Kickx was a Belgian botanist. His father, also known as Jean Kickx was a botanist and mineralogist; his son Jean Jacques Kickx was a professor of botany at the University of Ghent.
In 1830 he obtained his PhD at Leuven, later serving as a professor of botany in Brussels and at the University of Ghent. He was a co-founder of the Société royale de botanique de Belgique.
The mycological genus Kickxella was named in his honor by Eugène Coumans.

Published works

He was the author of a treatise on cryptogamic flora native to Flanders that was issued after his death by his son as Flore Cryptogamique des Flandre. In the field of malacology, he published Specimen inaugurale exhibens synopsin molluscorum Brabantiæ Australi indigenorum. Other noteworthy written works by Kickx include: