Alois Alzheimer – Early Years

Early in the morning of June 14, 1864, little Aloysius was born to the notary Eduard Alzheimer and his second wife Theresia in Marktbreit at a site now called Ochsenfurter Straße 15a, the same place where the christening celebration was held. Ignaz Ruland, canon of Würzburg, baptized the child and Alois Alzheimer, curate at Sulzfeld, acted as godfather.

Birth register with the entry of Alois Alzheimer's birth on June 14, 1864.

An early photograph showing Alois Alzheimer (on the right) at the age of two years with his mother Theresia brother Karl and sister Johanna.

Alois Alzheimer at the age of two with mother and siblings.

Alzheimer’s father operated a lawyer’s office on the second floor on the premises ”Zur Groe“.

'Zur Groe' is the building in which Alois Alzheimer's father ran an law office.

Significant events in his life were his highschool examination in 1883 in Aschaffenburg, studies in Berlin, Tübingen und Würzburg, where he wrote his doctoral thesis ”Über die Ohrenschmalzdrüsen“ (On Ceruminal Glands) in 1888, providing his first histologic plates.