Learned by myself - teach others
In 1908, Alois Alzheimer was employed by the Psychiatric Institute as an associate professor and became the head of the anatomical laboratory at the clinic. There, in addition to his research work, he also trained students from various countries. The scientist spent a lot of time on discussions and explained to each of them the things that remained unclear, dealt with them in various clinical cases. Those who were present and able to observe his work as a teacher described this unforgettable experience as follows:
"Alzheimer and his big head leaned over the microscope, his neck was hanging a pince-nezz on a shoelace, and he was always with a cigar, which he lowered whenever it was necessary to comment on or explain something to the student".
It was also said that at the end of the day, each student could find a cigarette butt on the bench, marking his movements through the laboratory.
The doctor devoted the final three years of his life to research and clinical work. He concentrated all his efforts on studying changes in glial cells in various brain diseases. His most famous work at that time was related to Wilson's disease. In this work, he identified two different forms called Alzheimer's Type I and Type II.
Throughout his career, he has also worked on diseases such as progressive paralysis, cerebral atherosclerosis, brain damage associated with chronic alcoholism, acute syphilitic infection, and Alzheimer's anatomy of idiopathy, Huntington's chorea.
Alois Alzheimer died at the age of 51 as a result of complications caused by a serious heart infection and was buried next to his wife in Frankfurt.
A fighter for scientific justice
All Alzheimer's studies have a passion for anatomical and histological observations and extensive clinical experience. He was extremely meticulous and never published the results of his work until he had fully tested its correctness. Colleagues described him as follows:
"Alzheimer was a man with a clear mind and an extraordinary creative vein, who put great effort into his work and at all costs always achieved scientific truthfulness of their results ...".
This amazing man, a scientist, a doctor - Alois Alzheimer, whose works include the most extensive range of studies and interests, discovered and described not only the disease, later named after him, but also made an indescribable contribution to most of the key brain research. He can rightly be considered the father of neuropathology. His passion not only for learning new things, but also his great desire to share his experience has led him to create a unique school of brain research in Germany, which now numbers more than a century.
This was the kind of German who is driving the whole world crazy and could be called Lomonosov neuropathology for his contribution to science.