Oscar Werner Tiegs

Who was Oscar Werner Tiegs?

Oscar Werner Tiegs FRS FAA was an Australian zoologist whose career spanned the first half of the 20th century.

His contribution to the division of the phylum arthropoda into two parts, one including insecta, myriapoda, and peripatus, and the other including trilobites, crustacea, and arachnids, is considered to be an important contribution to zoology. He was acknowledged as having a remarkable ability for apt and beautiful drawings, and as being an excellent microscopist, as having a great capacity for meticulous accuracy, persistent work, and shrewd illicitation of relationships from massive detail. He is considered one of Australia's great zoologists and as having a permanent place in the history of zoology.

He was a Doctor of Science, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and a founding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.