Alois Alzheimer 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.
Official Portrait of Alois Alzheimer
Alzheimer's Birthplace
First description of Alzheimer's dementia (1906)
Alzheimer in his later years just before his death (c. 1915)
Marktbreit am Main is a town in the district of Kitzingen in the Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated at the most southern point of the Main river. Marktbreit is the birthplace of Alois Alzheimer who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimer's disease. With its suburb Gnodstadt, Marktbreit has around 3,700 inhabitants.
The Malerwinkel in Marktbreit
Marktbreit, view to the town from Segnitz
The town wall tower Flurersturm
Alter Kranen