Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric The Love Letters / edited and with an introduction by Jürgen Renn and Robert Schulmann ; translated by Shawn Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.

Contributor:

Smith, Shawn, 1968 April-

Einstein-Marić, Mileva, 1875-1948.

Schulmann, Robert J.

Renn, Jürgen, 1956-

Standardized Title:

Correspondence. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Physicists.

Physicists--Correspondence.

Einstein-Marić, Mileva, 1875-1948.

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.

Einstein-Marić, Mileva, 1875-1948--Correspondence.

Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955--Correspondence.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Other Title:

Love letters.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2001, 1992.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691088860

0691088861

9780691215037

0691215030

OCLC:

1227051296