Professor '''Friedrich Kiefer''' (9 September 1897 – 18 April 1985) was a German zoologist, specialising in freshwater copepods.<ref name="petymol"/> For over 60 years, he was "the preeminent morphological taxonomist of continental free-living copepods".<ref>{{cite journal |author=Grace Wyngaard |journal=Hydrobiologia |volume=417 |issue=1 |pages=1–10 |year=2000 |editor=V. Alekseev, G. A. Wyngaard & F. D. Ferrari |title=The contributions of Ulrich K. Einsle to the taxonomy of the Copepoda |doi=10.1023/A:1003806912364|s2cid=29379328 }}</ref>
Kiefer was born in Karlsruhe on September 6, 1897. He became honorary director of the ''{{lang|de|Anstalt für Bodenseeforschung}}'' (Institute for Research on Lake Constance) in 1963, following the retirement of Max Auerbach.<ref name="petymol">{{cite web |url=http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.k.html |work=Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names |title=Professor Dr. Friedrich Kiefer |author=Hans G. Hansson |publisher=Göteborgs Universitet |access-date=November 2, 2010 |archive-date=January 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150128114215/http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.k.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is commemorated in the scientific names ''Cyclopinula kieferi'' and ''Eurytemora kieferi''.<ref name="petymol"/>
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