Jean Jacques Kickx (27 January 1842,
Ghent – 27 March 1887, Ghent) was a Belgian
botanist
Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...
. His father,
Jean Kickx
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 o ...
(1803–1864), and grandfather, also named
Jean Kickx (1775–1831), were both botanists.
He was educated in Ghent and
Bonn, obtaining his doctorate of sciences in 1863. In 1867 he was appointed professor of botany at the
University of Ghent as well as director of the
botanical garden and school of
horticulture. In 1879 he became president of the ''Société royale de botanique de Belgique'', and in 1887 was named
rector
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Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
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of the university.
Published works
* ''Monographie des Spenophyllum d'Europe'' (with
Eugène Coemans), 1864 - Monograph on
Sphenophyllum of Europe.
* ''Flore Cryptogamique des Flandres'' (posthumous oeuvre of Jean Kickx), 1867 -
Cryptogamic flora of
Flanders.
* ''Les Ranonculacées du littoral belge'' -
Ranunculaceae of littoral Belgium.
* ''Sur la formation et la division des cellules'' (with
Eduard Strasburger
Eduard Adolf Strasburger (1 February 1844 – 18 May 1912) was a Polish-German professor and one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century. He discovered mitosis in plants.
Life
Eduard Strasburger was born in Warsaw, Congress Poland, the ...
), 1876 - On the formation and division of cells.
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1842 births
1887 deaths
Scientists from Ghent
Academic staff of Ghent University
19th-century Belgian botanists