Alois Alzheimer

Dr. Aloysius Alois Alzheimer was a Bavarianborn German psychiatrist and neuropathologist and a colleague of Emil Kraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of presenile dementia, which Kraepelin would later identify as Alzheimers disease.

Aloysius Alzheimer was born in Marktbreit, Bavaria onJune 1864. His father served in the office of notary public in the familys hometown. The Alzheimers moved when Alois was still young in order to give their children an opportunity to attend the Royal Humanistic Gymnasium. Later, Alois would study medicine in Aschaffenburg, Tbingen, Berlin, and Wrzburg Universities. His college years were fairly typical in his final year of school Alois was on the fencing team and a member of a fraternity, and even received a fine for disturbing the peace while out with his team. In April 1884, he married Cecille Simonette Nathalie Geisenheimer, with whom he had three children. Cecille died in 1901. In 1887, Alois Alzheimer graduated from Wrzburg with a degree in medicine.

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