Jean Kickx (1775–1831)


Jean Kickx Son of Jacques Kickx and Marie van Esschen was a Belgian botanist and mineralogist. His son Jean Kickx and grandson Jean Jacques Kickx 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. In 1827 Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier named the genus Kickxia in his honor.

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