Jean Kickx (1775–1831)
Jean Kickx (9 March 1775, Brussels – 27 March 1831, Brussels) Son of Jacques Kickx (dead <1802) and Marie van Esschen (dead >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
- ↑ The Mineralogical Record - Library Tentamen Mineralogicum
- ↑ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ↑ Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings: A Glossary by F. A. Sharr
- ↑ Google Search (publications)
- ↑ OCLC Classify (publications)
- ↑ IPNI. J.Kickx.
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