Theodor Eimer
German zoologist
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- PhD Zoology University of Tübingen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer was a German zoologist. He was a popularizer of orthogenesis, a form of directed evolution through mutations that made use of Lamarckian principles. Life and work Eimer was born in Stäfa, Switzerland where his father, who had taken refuge following an attempted coup against the German Confederation in Frankfurt in 1833, practiced medicine. Eimer's mother, Albertine Pfenniger, was Swiss. After studying at gymnasiums in Bruchsal and Freiburg where his father worked, Eimer matriculated at Tübingen, where he was influenced by Franz von Leydig. He then studied from 1863 at Freiburg, and 1864 at Heidelberg to pass examinations in natural sciences. He spent the winter semester of 1865 at the University of Tübingen and in 1866 he worked in Berlin at Rudolf Virchow’s laboratory. He obtained a medical degree in 1867 and then studied zoology at Freiburg under August Weismann followed by studies in Paris. He received a D.Phil. in Würzburg studying fat absorption in the intestine under Albert von Kölliker. After spending his junior faculty years as prosector at University of Würzburg, he became in 1875 a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Tübingen. Eimer was one of the founders of the German Zoological Society.
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