Auguste Deter
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Auguste Deter （German pronunciation: [aʊ̯ˈɡʊstə ˈdeːtɐ]; 16 May 1850 – 8 April 1906） was a German woman notable for being the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Auguste was born and raised in Cassell （Kassel）, Germany, into a working-class family on 16 May 1850.
She had three siblings and was a daughter to Johannes Hohmann.
He died when Auguste was at a young age.
Even though Auguste's family was impoverished, she was well educated.
She attended school in Cassell, and it is speculated that she may have been a student of Alzheimer's grandfather, Johann.
He was a schoolmaster in Cassell during the time Auguste attended school.
Further education would have never been considered for Auguste due to the social climate.
Education is based upon social class and gender rather than skill.
Auguste started work as a full-time seamstress assistant when she was at the age of 14.
She continued this career until she married Carl （Karl） August Wilhelm Deter on 1 May 1873, at the age of 23.
Carl worked as a railway clerk since its opening in 1888.
After marrying Carl, she moved to Frankfurt, Germany, to start her duty as a full-time housewife.
Carl described their marriage as "Happy and harmonious".
Together they had one daughter named Thekla.
Auguste regularly cooked, cleaned and raised her daughter Thekla until she became ill in the spring of 1901 at the age of 50.
She was later that year in November admitted to a mental hospital where she lived the rest of her life.
Auguste and Carl had been married for 33 years until her death on 8 April 1906 at the age of 55, just 5 weeks shy of her 56th birthday.
During the late 1890s, Auguste exhibited a rapid escalation in memory loss and started showing symptoms of dementia, such as loss of memory, delusions, and ev...