Gustav Heinrich Theodor (Theodor) Eimer (1843–98)

Swiss zoologist. Studied medicine and natural sciences at Tübingen, Freiburg im Breisgau, Heidelberg, and Berlin. MD 1867. Habilitated in zoology at Würzburg, 1870. Superintendent of the museum at Darmstadt, and professor extraordinarius at the polytechnic, 1874. Professor of zoology, Tübingen, from 1875. Developed his own theory of evolution, ‘orthogenesis’.