Friedrich Kiefer
Professor Friedrich Kiefer was a German zoologist, specialising in freshwater copepods. For over 60 years, he was "the preeminent morphological taxonomist of continental free-living copepods".
Kiefer was born in Karlsruhe on September 6, 1897. He became honorary director of the Anstalt für Bodenseeforschung in 1963, following the retirement of Max Auerbach. He is commemorated in the scientific names Cyclopinula kieferi and Eurytemora kieferi.
