Theodor Eimer

Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer ( born February 22, 1843 in Zurich, Switzerland, † May 29 1898 in Tübingen ) was a German zoologist.

In 1875 he became a professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at the University of Tübingen. According to him, the so-called bucket 's organs were named, which were found in moles. Was also named after him Einzellerart Eimeria. It also credited to him to have made the term orthogenesis popular. In 1879 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. His final resting place he found on the mountain in Tübingen cemetery.

Works (selection)

• History of the goblet cells, in particular those of the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal ... Printed as inaugural dissertation (Berlin, 1868).
• About the egg or the so-called Spherical Psorospermien of Vertebrates. A contribution to the history of development of gregarines and to the knowledge of these parasites as a cause of disease (Würzburg, 1870).
• Zoological studies on Capri ... (Leipzig, Wurzburg, 1873-1874 ).
• Zoological studies with special emphasis on the biology ... (Würzburg, 1874).
• The medusae physiologically and morphologically to their nervous system studied ( Tübingen, 1878).
• Studies on the Variation of wall lizard. Nicolaische publishing bookshop, Berlin, 1881. Online
• The Origin of Species on the basis of inheriting properties acquired under the laws of organic growth. A contribution to the single view of the living world, etc. ( 3 Bd, Jena, 1888-1901 - translated into English by Joseph Thomas Cunningham ( 1859-1935 ): Organic evolution as the result of the inheritance of characters -acquired Accor ding to the laws of organic growth ..., Macmillan & Co., Londres, 1890).
• The speciation and relationship in butterflies. A systematic presentation of the amendments, varieties and types of segelfalter -like forms of the genus Papilio, etc. 2 vols, Jena ( 1889-1895 ).