THIP Media rated the claim “Alzheimer’s disease was non-existent before 1979” False.
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Alois Alzheimer
Alois Alzheimer was a German psychiatrist, neuropathologist and colleague of Emil Kraepelin. He is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin later identified as Alzheimer's disease.
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science · German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915) · psychiatrist · neuropathologist · neuroscientist · university teacher · neurologist · physician · also Alois Alzheimer, Aloys Alzheimer, Alzheimer
Born 14 June 1864 · Died 19 December 1915 · Q70530
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2025· 2 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “Alzheimer's disease never existed until 1979” Since 1906.
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1915· 1 entry
Died 1915-12-19.
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1912· 1 entry
Where he accepted a post as professor of psychiatry and director of the Neurologic and Psychiatric Institute
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1910· 1 entry
When Kraepelin named it so in the chapter on "Presenile and Senile Dementia" in the 8th edition of his Handbook of Psychiatry
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1907· 3 entries
“s disease in 1910, when Kraepelin named it so in the chapter on”
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Wrote a longer paper detailing the disease and his findings
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Around the time that Alzheimer published his short paper summarizing his presentation
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1904· 1 entry
Alzheimer completed his habilitation at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), where he was appointed as a professor in 1908
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1903· 1 entry
Invited Alzheimer to join him
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1901· 1 entry
Alzheimer observed a patient at the Frankfurt asylum named Auguste Deter
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1894· 1 entry
Alzheimer married Cecilie Simonette Nathalie Geisenheimer, with whom he had three children
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1888· 1 entry
Alzheimer spent five months assisting mentally ill women before he took an office in the city mental asylum in Frankfurt, the Städtische Anstalt für Irre und Epileptische (Asylum for Lunatics and Epileptics)
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1887· 1 entry
Alzheimer graduated from Würzburg as Doctor of Medicine
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1883· 1 entry
Alzheimer studied medicine at University of Berlin, University of Tübingen, and University of Würzburg
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1864· 1 entry
Born 1864-06-14.
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