Professor Friedrich Kiefer (9 September 1897 – 18 April 1985) was a German zoologist, specialising in freshwater copepods. For over 60 years, he was "the preeminent morphological taxonomist of continental free-living copepods".[1]
Kiefer was born in Karlsruhe on September 6, 1897. He became honorary director of the German: Anstalt für Bodenseeforschung (Institute for Research on Lake Constance) in 1963, following the retirement of Max Auerbach.[2] He is commemorated in the scientific names Cyclopinula kieferi and Eurytemora kieferi.[2]