Hans Albert Einstein - the first son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marich: biography

Hans Albert Einstein is the second son of one of the greatest physicists of the first half of the twentieth century - Albert Einstein, who radically changed the ideas of the science of the universe.

Father

Albert Einstein was born on March 15, 1987 in a Jewish family, who lived at that time in the small German town of Ulm. His father Herman owned a firm that stuffed pillows and mattresses with feathers. Albert's mother was the daughter of a well-known maize seller in the town.

In 1880, the Einstein family moved to Munich. Here, Albert's father, together with his brother Jacob, opened a small enterprise that sells electrical equipment. In Munich, Albert had a sister, Maria. In the same city, the boy first went to school. It was visited by the children of Catholics. According to the recollections of the scientist, already at the age of 13 he departed from religious beliefs and became attached to science. All that was said in the Bible ceased to appear to him plausible. He began to form as a person, skeptical about everything, including authority.

The most vivid impressions of childhood, which Albert had for life, are the compass and the work of Euclid's "Beginnings."

Mother insisted that future Nobel laureate be engaged in music. Albert began to play the violin and was carried away by it. The craving for music remained with him for life. Already in his mature years, while in the United States, the scientist even gave a concert to emigrants who came from Germany. He performed Mozart's composition on the violin.

In 1894, the Einstein family moved to a small town of Pavia near Milan. Here, from Munich, was transferred and own production.

In 1895 the future scientist came to Switzerland. In this country he wanted to enter the school to become a physics teacher. However, Albert could not pass tests on botany. Then the young genius went to study in the school town of Arau. Here he was carried away by the study of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory.

The next place to study the future Nobel laureate was the Polytechnic of Zurich. Here he met with mathematician Grossman. Here he met his future wife - Milev Marich.

The diploma of the Polytechnic was awarded to Albert Einstein in 1900, however he could not find a permanent job in the specialty. In order to survive and feed the family, the future Nobel laureate had to become an employee of the patent agency. In his spare time, he did not stop dealing with scientific problems.

In 1903, Albert's father died. In the same year, he legalized his relationship with Mileva Marich.

The coming to power of Hitler forced Albert to leave Germany. He moved to America, where he became a professor at Princeton University. The great natural scientist died in 1955. The reason for his death was the aortic aneurysm.

Mother

Mileva Marich is the first wife of Albert Einstein. She was a Serbian by birth, born in Hungary. This is the only girl who studied at the Zurich Polytechnic School.

Mileva Marich was older than Albert Einstein for three and a half years. However, this did not stop their love. Soon after the acquaintance, the young people began to live a civil marriage. For the people around them, such an alliance seemed somewhat strange. After all, the young Einstein was distinguished by an amazing charm, attractiveness and ease of communication. In contrast, Mileva was ugly. Her stunted figure was spoiled by the stoop and lameness that arose after the bone tuberculosis was transferred. But at the same time Mileva was a very talented mathematician, she possessed a deep intellect. And the absence in her character of excessive respect for various authorities finally brought her closer to Albert.

In addition, young people both loved music and good food. It is also important that Mileva was an excellent hostess. It is possible that Einstein subconsciously sought a woman who could remove from him the burden of domestic problems. After all, according to the memories of friends, as a student, Albert was unable to focus on everyday concerns. Milev, unlike him, was a practical man, which reminded Einstein of his mother.

Wedding of Hans parents

His civil marriage Einstein did not hide. His parents also knew about him. But they did not give their son permission for the wedding. Albert's mother considered Milev repulsive and ugly, and the father wanted to see as his daughter-in-law a girl of only Jewish nationality.

Everything changed after Herman Einstein was terminally ill. Saying goodbye to his son, he still blessed his marriage. And on 601.1903, the young became a husband and wife, legitimizing their relationship in Bern.

First child

Hans Albert Einstein never saw his sister. She was born in 1902, when her parents were in a civil marriage. The illegitimate child could spoil the scientific career of the young genius. And so, being pregnant, Mileva went to her parents. Here, in Hungary, she gave birth to the daughter of Lieserl. In order for no one to learn about the illegitimate baby, the girl was immediately given up to foster parents for upbringing.

Milev promised never to look for a daughter and not meet her. According to some sources, the girl did not live long. As an infant, she contracted a fleeting scarlet fever and died. Einstein never saw his daughter and did not tell anyone about her.

Son of a genius

On 14.05.1904 Hans Albert Einstein was born . The boy's biography began in Bern. The streets of this city raced his happy father, who, learning about the birth of his son, ran all the way to kiss his wife and baby.

Einstein's first son was very much loved by his parents. According to the recollections of the friends of the great scientist, they often saw Albert, who in one hand held the sheets of papers written down and across, while the other rocked the baby carriage with the sleeping baby.

The fate of the second son

In 1910 in the family of Einstein was born another boy - Edward. He had excellent musical abilities. However, the second son of the scientist was very painful, and at the age of 20, after suffering a nervous breakdown, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. At one time, Eduard Einstein was under the care of his mother. But a little later Mileva put her son in a psychiatric hospital.

Albert Einstein, who by that time had already divorced his wife, was not at all surprised by the illness of his son, who was affectionately called "Tetel" or "Tete." The fact is that the sister of Mileva suffered from schizophrenia. Edward Einstein also often behaved in a way that clearly indicated the presence of the disease and his. However, another opinion was held by the eldest son of the great scientist. Hans Albert Einstein believed that the final destruction of his brother's psyche was due to the popular treatment in those days using electric shock.

Albert Einstein moved to live in the US a year after his Tete was sent to a psychiatric hospital. And since then, communication with his sons was limited only by letters. Edward sent his father a rare, but very heartfelt message. In one of them, for example, the scientist compared people to the sea, saying that they can be both friendly and welcoming, as well as complex and turbulent.

After the death in 1948 of the mother, Eduard Einstein was in a village near Zurich, where he was guarded by Dr. Henry Miley. Lived Tete from the local pastor and gradually began to contact people Eduard even started earning money by writing addresses on envelopes on the instructions of one of the local companies.

However, after a while, the guardian moved his ward to the widow of a lawyer who lived on the outskirts of Zurich. This worsened the mental state of Edward. In 1954, the great scientist refused all contact with his youngest son. He explained his act with the conviction that the correspondence was excruciating for both of them.

In 1965 Edward died. According to one of the researchers, he was killed by love for his neighbors, which proved to be an unbearable burden for him.

Divorce of parents

Since 1912, relations between Albert and Milev have become more than tense. This was due to the enthusiasm of the scientist's cousin Elsa Levental. In 1914 Marich left with her children in Zurich, having received from the spouse a notarized commitment to the annual maintenance of the family in the amount of 5,600 Reichsmarks. The official divorce of the couple was issued on February 14, 1919.

Between Einstein and Maric was an agreement. It provided for the transfer to the former spouse of the monetary part of the Nobel Prize expected by the scientist. The financial means that Albert Einstein would receive, the children had to take in their trust management. Marich remained receiving interest.

Life after the parents' divorce

In June 1919, the scientist came to Zurich, where he spent time with his children. Albert Einstein's son Hans went with his father to a sailing trip along the Lake Constance, and with Edward the great naturalist visited Arosa, where the boy's sanatorium treatment was performed.

Mileva and her sons lived in extremely straitened circumstances. However, in 1922, after receiving the Nobel Prize for her former husband, she acquired three houses in Zurich. In one of them Marich moved to live with her sons, and the other two served as long-term investments of funds. However, everything changed after Eduard was diagnosed with a terrible diagnosis. Two houses Mileva had to sell. All the funds went to pay for his son's treatment at the university clinic in Zurich. In order not to lose the main house, the woman transferred the rights to his possession to a former husband who fulfilled his obligations to transfer funds for the maintenance of the former family.

Career of the eldest son of the great scientist

Hans Albert Einstein decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents. To do this, he received a diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, located in Zurich, where he finished his studies in 1926. Then, for four years, he worked as a designer on the project of the bridge under construction in Dortmund. Already in 1936, Hans Albert defended his doctoral dissertation, having received her degree for her.

Emigration

After Albert Einstein, fleeing the anti-Semitic threat, left Germany, he advised to do the same to his eldest son. In 1938, Hans Albert Einstein left Switzerland and moved to South Carolina, in the city of Greenville. Here he worked as a hydraulic engineer in the US Department of Agriculture. The scope of his duties included the study of sediment. Work in the Department lasted from 1938 to 1943.

Since 1947, Hans Albert Einstein is an associate professor at the California Hydraulic University in Berkeley. But on this his career did not end. Later he became an honorary professor at the same university.

Being a highly qualified specialist in his field, Hans Albert traveled the world a lot. He constantly took part in the hydrotechnical conferences of various levels even after 1971, when he had already retired. At one of these symposiums in Woodshall, Mass., Hans Albert Einstein was also in 1973, where on July 26 he died of a heart attack.

Awards

Hans Albert was awarded for his work in the field of hydraulics and the study of bottom sediments:

- Guggenheim scholarships (in 1953);

- scientific awards of the American Society of Civil Engineers (in 1959 and 1960);

- Certificate of Honor from the US Department of Agriculture (in 1971);

- the award of the University of California (in 1971);

- a certificate of recognition of more than 20 years of impeccable and dedicated service from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (in 1972).

Personal life

After the divorce of the parents, the relationship between Hans Albert and his father became more than tense. The son accused the great scientist of the fact that he put Milev in an extremely difficult financial situation, giving her only interest in the received Nobel Prize.

The disagreement between son and father became even deeper after the great scientist opposed the marriage of Hans to Fred Knecht. The girl was older than a guy for three years. In addition, according to Einstein, the elder, there was nothing attractive in it. The scientist cursed such a union, accusing Frida of guile and persecution of his son. After unsuccessful attempts to quarrel young Albert Einstein began to beg them not to have children, so as not to complicate, in his opinion, the inevitable divorce.

Reconciliation between father and son did not come even during their life in the US. They have always been apart. After the death of the great scientist, almost nothing inherited his son.

Despite the quarrel with his father, in 1927, Fried Knecht still married Hans Albert Einstein. His personal life has developed successfully. With this woman he was together until her death in 1958. Widowed, he married again. His wife was Elizabeth Robose.

Hans and Frida had three own children. However, only one of them survived to adulthood. Bernhard Caesar Einstein (10.07.1930 - September 30, 2008) was an engineer-physicist. The couple also had an adopted daughter, Evelyn. She died in 2011 in extreme poverty.

Hans Albert was an avid sailor. Often with colleagues and his family, he went on an excursion to San Francisco. The son of a great scientist was fond of photography. His scientific lectures, he also read using a self-created slideshow. Just like his father, Hans loved music and was able to play the flute and the piano. This is mentioned on his tombstone.