Reinhard Rieger
Reinhard M. Rieger (10 May 1943 – 11 October 2006) was an Austrian zoologist.
Life
Reinhard Rieger studied zoology and botany at the University of Vienna. After his studies he was employed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. From 1985 he taught zoology at the University of Innsbruck.
Rieger's research focused on the morphology, developmental biology, and evolution of basal animal groups, especially the platyhelminths. His research group worked on the stem cells of turbellarians.
He coauthored, with Wilfried Westheide, the standard German-language zoological reference work Spezielle Zoologie. The Reinhard-Rieger-Award in Zoomorphology, initiated in 2008, was established in his memory.
Selected works
- Spezielle Zoologie. 2nd ed. Elsevier, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, München 2007 (2 vols., coauthored with Wilfried Westheide).
- Einzeller und Wirbellose Tiere, 2007. ISBN 978-3-8274-1575-2
- Wirbel- oder Schädeltiere, 2010. ISBN 978-3-8274-2039-8.
External links
- Literature by and about Reinhard Rieger in the German National Library catalogue
- Institut für Zoologie - Universität Innsbruck