Alois Alzheimer ( June 14, 1864 - December 19, 1915), a Germanneurologist, was a colleague of Emil Kraepelin who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimers Disease. He observed the disease in 1906. He was born in a small town called Marktbreit, Bavaria, where his father served in the office of notary public. Alzheimer attended Aschaffenburg, Tübingen, Berlin, and Würzburg universities. He received a medical degree at Würzberg University in 18871887 is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar). Events January 20 The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. January 21 The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed January 26 Battle of Dogali: A. In the following year, he spent five months assisting mentally ill women, before he took an office in the city mental asylum in Frankfurt am Main: the Städtische Irrenanstalt. Emil Stoli was the dean of that asylum ( 1852Events January 14 President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. January 17 United Kingdom recognizes independence of the Transvaal Devil's Island penal colony opens February 11 First British public toilet- 1922Events January 7 Dali Eireann ratifies the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64-57 votes. January 10 Arthur Griffith is elected President of Dail Eireann January 11 First successful insulin treatment of diabetes. January 12 British government releases Irish prisoners). Another neurologist, Franz Nissl ( 1860Events March 6 Abraham Lincoln speaks against slavery in New Haven, Connecticut April 3 The Pony Express makes its first run. May 9 The Constitutional Union Party holds its convention and nominates John Bell for President of the United States. May 13 Batt- 1919Events January January 1 Edsel Ford succeeds his father as head of the Ford Motor Company January 5 Spartacist uprising Socialist demonstrations in Berlin turn into attempted communist revolution with Spartacist League in the forefront January 9 Spartacus), began to work in that same asylum with Alzheimer, and they knew each other. Alzheimer was the co-founder and co-publisher of the German journal called Zeitschrift für die gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie. He never wrote a book that he would call his own. He fell ill on the train to University of Breslau and died of endocarditisEndocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. The most common structures involved are the heart valves. Endocarditis can be classified as either infective or non-infective depending on whether a foreign organism is caus at the age of 51, five months after arrival to Breslau (now WroclawWroclaw (in Polish pronounced: Media:Wroclaw. ogg|[:vrwaf]]], Czech Vratislav Latin: Wratislavia German Breslau is a city in Silesia in southwestern Poland, situated on the Oder River. As of ( 2003) the city had a population of 638,666. It is the principa, Poland).
