Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric : : The Love Letters / / Albert Einstein; ed. by Robert Schulmann, Jürgen Renn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Einstein, Albert,
• HerausgeberIn: Renn, Jürgen,; Schulmann, Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Smith, Shawn,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (140 p.)

In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric, the companion, colleague, and confidante whose influence on his most creative years has given rise to much speculation. Beginning in 1897, after Einstein and Maric met as students at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic, and ending shortly after their marriage, these fifty-four love letters offer a rare glimpse into Einstein's relationship with his first wife while shedding light on his intellectual development in the period before the annus mirabilis of 1905. Unlike the picture of Einstein the lone, isolated thinker of Princeton, he appears here both as the burgeoning enfant terrible of science and as an amorous young man beset, along with his fiance, by financial and personal struggles--among them the illegitimate birth of their daughter, whose existence is known only by these letters. Describing his conflicts with professors and other scientists, his arguments with his mother over Maric, and his difficulty obtaining an academic position after graduation, the letters enable us to reconstruct the youthful Einstein with an unprecedented immediacy. His love for Maric, whom he describes as "a creature who is my equal, and who is as strong and independent as I am," brings forth his serious as well as playful, often theatrical nature. After their marriage, however, Maric becomes less his intellectual companion, and, failing to acquire a teaching certificate, she subordinates her professional goals to his. In the final letters Einstein has obtained a position at the Swiss Patent Office and mentions their daughter one last time to his wife in Hungary, where she is assumed to have placed the girl in the care of relatives. Informative, entertaining, and often very moving, this collection of letters captures for scientists and general readers alike a little known yet crucial period in Einstein's life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Textual Note -- Translator's Note -- 1 Marie to Einstein, after 20 October 1897 -- 2 Einstein to Marie, 16 February 1898 -- 3 Einstein to Marie, after 16 April 1898 -- 4 Einstein to Marie, after 16 April 1898 -- 5 Einstein to Marie, after 28 November 1898 -- 6 Einstein to Marie, 13 or 20 March 1899 -- 7 Einstein to Marie, early August 1899 -- 8 Einstein to Marie, 10? August 1899 -- 9 Marie to Einstein, after 10 August-before 10 September 1899 -- 10 Einstein to Marie, 10 September 1899 -- 11 Einstein to Marie, 28? September 1899 -- 12 Einstein to Marie, 10 October 1899 -- 13 Marie to Einstein, 1900? -- 14 Einstein to Marie, 29? July 1900 -- 15 Einstein to Marie, 1 August 1900 -- 16 Einstein to Marie, 6 August 1900 -- 17 Einstein to Marie, 9? August 1900 -- 18 Einstein to Marie, 14? August 1900 -- 19 Einstein to Marie, 20 August 1900 -- 20 Einstein to Marie, 30 August or 6 September 1900 -- 21 Einstein to Marie, 13? September 1900 -- 22 Einstein to Marie, 19 September 1900 -- 23 Einstein to Marie, 3 October 1900 -- 24 Einstein to Marie, 23 March 1901 -- 25 Einstein to Marie, 27 March 1901 -- 26 Einstein to Marie, 4 April 1901 -- 27 Einstein to Marie, 10 April 1901 -- 28 Einstein to Marie, 15 April 1901 -- 29 Einstein to Marie, 30 April 1901 -- 30 Marie to Einstein, 2 May 1901 -- 31 Marie to Einstein, 3 May 1901 -- 32 Einstein to Marie, 9 May 1901 -- 33 Einstein to Marie, second half of May? 1901 -- 34 Marie to Einstein, second half of May? 1901 -- 35 Einstein to Marie, second half of May? 1901 -- 36 Einstein to Marie, 28? May 1901 -- 37 Einstein to Marie, 4? June 1901 -- 38 Einstein to Marie, 7? July 1901 -- 39 Marie to Einstein, ca. 8 July 1901 -- 40 Einstein to Marie, 22? July 1901 -- 41 Marie to Einstein, 31? July 1901 -- 42 Marie to Einstein, early November 1901 -- 43 Marie to Einstein, 13 November 1901 -- 44 Einstein to Marie, 28 November 1901 -- 45 Einstein to Marie, 12 December 1901 -- 46 Einstein to Marie, 17 December 1901 -- 47 Einstein to Marie, 19 December 1901 -- 48 Einstein to Marie, 28 December 1901 -- 49 Einstein to Marie, 4 February 1902 -- 50 Einstein to Marie, 8? February 1902 -- 51 Einstein to Marie, 17? February 1902 -- 52 Einstein to Marie, 28 June 1902 or later -- 53 Einstein-Maric to Einstein, 27 August 1903 -- 54 Einstein to Einstein-Maric, 19? September 1903 -- Notes -- Literature Cited