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
edit- "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
edit- ^ The Mineralogical Record - Library Archived 2015-06-10 at the Wayback Machine Tentamen Mineralogicum
- ^ BHL Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
- ^ Sharr, F. A. (1978). Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings: A Glossary. University of Western Australia Press. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-875560-43-1.
- ^ Google Search (publications)
- ^ OCLC Classify (publications)
- ^ International Plant Names Index. J.Kickx.
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