KICKX, J.

Jean Kickx (17 January 1803, Brussels 1864) was a Belgian botanist. His father, also known as Jean Kickx (1775-1831) was a botanist and mineralogist; his son Jean Jacques Kickx (1842-1887) 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 (1831-1835) and at the University of Ghent (1835-1864). He was a co-founder of the Société royale de botanique de Belgique. The mycological genus Kickxella (order Kickxellales) was named in his honor by Eugène Coumans