German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)
Alois Alzheimer
Official Portrait of Alois Alzheimer
Born
(1864-06-14)14 June 1864
Marktbreit, Kingdom of Bavaria
Died
19 December 1915(1915-12-19) (aged 51)
Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (present-day Wrocław, Poland)
Education
Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen
Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
Friedrich Wilhelm University
Known for
First published case of "presenile dementia" (Alzheimer's disease)
Spouse
Cecilie Simonette Nathalie Geisenheimer
(m. 1894; died 1901)
Children
3
Medical career
Profession
Psychiatrist, physician
Institutions
Institute for the Insane and Epileptic ("Irrenschloss"), Frankfurt
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Silesian Friedrich Wilhelm University in Breslau
Sub-specialties
Neuropathology
Signature
Alois Alzheimer (/ˈæltshaɪmər/ALTS-hy-mər, US also /ˈɑːlts-,ˈɔːlts-/AHLTS-, AWLTS-,[1][2]German:[ˈaːlɔɪsˈʔaltshaɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a 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 Alzheimer's disease.[3]
^Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). "Alzheimer's disease". Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6.
^"Alzheimer's disease". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
^Berrios, G. E. (1 November 1990). "Alzheimer's disease: A conceptual history". International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. 5 (6): 355–65. doi:10.1002/gps.930050603. ISSN 1099-1166. S2CID 145155424.
AloisAlzheimer (/ˈæltshaɪmər/ ALTS-hy-mər, US also /ˈɑːlts-, ˈɔːlts-/ AHLTS-, AWLTS-, German: [ˈaːlɔɪs ˈʔaltshaɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915)...
Pick bodies and Pick cells are present. These were first described by AloisAlzheimer in 1911. Common signs and symptoms include significant changes in social...
about Auguste Deter at Internet Archive AloisAlzheimer Who Named It? Alzheimer's: 100 years on AloisAlzheimer's Biography. International Brain Research...
AloisAlzheimer". Bratisl Lek Listy. 107 (9–10): 343–345. PMID 17262985. H.-J. Möller; M. B. Graeber (1998). "The case described by AloisAlzheimer in...
the vessels of the cerebral cortex. In 1907, Bavarian psychiatrist AloisAlzheimer was the first to identify and describe the characteristics of progressive...
Marktbreit is the birthplace of AloisAlzheimer who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimer's disease. With its suburb Gnodstadt [de]...
core competencies. The origins of geriatric psychiatry began with AloisAlzheimer, a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist who first identified amyloid...
associated with Alzheimer's disease, but were first described by the same neuroscientist who first described the eponymous disease, AloisAlzheimer. Astrocytes...
schools (the other one was in Munich where AloisAlzheimer worked) in Europe at the time that framed Alzheimer disease through empirical discoveries. Beiträge...
physician. He was the pupil and colleague of AloisAlzheimer and contributed to the definition of Alzheimer's disease. Gaetano Perusini was born in Udine...
made them so valuable to practitioners. Among the doctors trained by AloisAlzheimer and Emil Kraepelin at Munich at the beginning of the 20th century were...
types of neurodegenerative diseases, such as frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease. In William Brant's Critique of Sarcastic Reason, sarcasm is...
because of the discovery that AloisAlzheimer made in 1906. The article mentions that the third reported case of Alzheimer's disease had histological structures...
This is a list of notable German scientists. AloisAlzheimer Franz Aepinus Ralf Altmeyer Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe Ludwig Aschoff Richard Baerwald Adolf...
University of Munich, Germany, conducting research under Emil Kraepelin and AloisAlzheimer. Fuller spent the majority of his career practicing as a neuropathologist...
Carl Henry Alström Alvarez syndrome – Walter C. Alvarez Alzheimer disease – AloisAlzheimer Anders disease – James Meschter Anders Andersen disease –...
a memorial plaque for AloisAlzheimer who first described the memory-damaging Alzheimer's disease – the German text means "Alois, we will never forget...
lesions), leading him to call the degenerative process 'drusige Nekrose'. AloisAlzheimer is often credited with first linking plaques to dementia in a 1906...
Wayback Machine. National Historical Institute. Retrieved 2010-03-30. "AloisAlzheimer". Whonamedit?. Archived from the original on March 25, 2010. Retrieved...
Alessandro Volta, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Pierre Duhem, Jean-Baptiste Dumas, AloisAlzheimer, Georgius Agricola and Christian Doppler. Contents Top A B C D E F...
Franz Bopp (1791–1867), linguist Emil Erlenmeyer (1825–1909), chemist AloisAlzheimer (1864–1915), psychiatrist and neuropathologist Ludwig Thoma (1867–1921)...
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