Alois Alzheimer
(1864-1915)

psychiatrist and neuropathologist

Died aged c. 51

Dr. Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer (German: [ˈaːloˌis ˈalts.haɪmɐ]; 14 June 1864 – 19 December 1915) was a Bavarian-born 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.

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Hier wohnte Alois Alzheimer 1864 1915 in den Jahren 1886/87 als Student. Die nach ihm benannte Erkrakung stellte er erstmals 1906 an der hiesigen Psychiatrischen Universitatsklinik der Offentlichkeit vor.

Hafengasse, Tübingen, Germany where he lived