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Alzheimer, Alois(Aloysius "Alois" Alzheimer)
Born: 1864 AD
Died: 1915 AD, at 51 years of age.
Nationality: German
Categories: Neuropathologist, Psychiatrist
Died: 1915 AD, at 51 years of age.
Nationality: German
Categories: Neuropathologist, Psychiatrist
1864 - Born on June 14th in Marktbreit, Bavaria. A German neuropathologist and psychiatrist. The eponym of Alzheimer's disease.
1887 - He attended the universities of Aschaffenburg, Tübingen, Berlin, and Würzburg, where he was granted a medical degree.
1888 - Alzheimer spent 5 months accompanying a mentally ill women on a journey, before he joined the staff of the city mental asylum in Frankfurt am Main - the Städtische Irrenanstalt – headed by Emil Sioli.
1895 - He was appointed director of the Irrenanstalt continuing his research on a wide range of subjects, including clinical studies of manic depression and schizophrenia.
1902 - He was invited by Kraepelin, the ”Linnaeus of psychiatry”, to work with him in the university psychiatric clinic in Heidelberg, and thus he once more worked with Nissl.
1903 - Alzheimer accompanied Kraepelin to the university psychiatric clinic in Munich, where he was habilitated with a work on differential diagnostics in progressive paralysis.
1908 - He joined the staff of the Psychiatric Institute as ausserordentlicher (associate) professor and succeeded Robert Gaupp as director of the clinic's anatomical laboratory.
1915 - He died on December 19th in Breslau.
1887 - He attended the universities of Aschaffenburg, Tübingen, Berlin, and Würzburg, where he was granted a medical degree.
1888 - Alzheimer spent 5 months accompanying a mentally ill women on a journey, before he joined the staff of the city mental asylum in Frankfurt am Main - the Städtische Irrenanstalt – headed by Emil Sioli.
1895 - He was appointed director of the Irrenanstalt continuing his research on a wide range of subjects, including clinical studies of manic depression and schizophrenia.
1902 - He was invited by Kraepelin, the ”Linnaeus of psychiatry”, to work with him in the university psychiatric clinic in Heidelberg, and thus he once more worked with Nissl.
1903 - Alzheimer accompanied Kraepelin to the university psychiatric clinic in Munich, where he was habilitated with a work on differential diagnostics in progressive paralysis.
1908 - He joined the staff of the Psychiatric Institute as ausserordentlicher (associate) professor and succeeded Robert Gaupp as director of the clinic's anatomical laboratory.
1915 - He died on December 19th in Breslau.
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