Jean Kickx

Jean Kickx (17 January 1803, Brussels – 1864) was a Belgian botanist.

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).

[1] The mycological genus Kickxella (order Kickxellales) was named in his honor by Eugène Coumans.

[1] 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 (1867).

[2] In the field of malacology, he published Specimen inaugurale exhibens synopsin molluscorum Brabantiæ Australi indigenorum (with Francis Joseph Adelmann, 1830).