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ALBERT EINSTEIN Cladb y JURGEN RENN AND ROBERT SCHULMANN SHAWN SMITH - Albert Einstein/Mileva Mari¢ ‘the Edited and with an Introduction by Jurgen Renn and Robert Schulmann Translated by Shawn Smith In 1903, despite the vehement objections of his parents, Albert Einstein married Mileva Mari¢, the companion, colleague, and conh- dante whose influence on his most creative years has given rise to much speculation. Be- ginning in 1897, after Einstein and Mari¢ 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 fiancée, 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 Mari¢, and his difficulty obtaining an academic position after graduation, the let- ters enable us to reconstruct the youthful Ein- stein with an unprecedented immediacy. His love for Marié, whom he describes as ‘“‘a crea- ture who is my equal, and who is as strong and independent as | am,” brings forth his se- rious as well as playful, often theatrical nature. After their marriage, however, Mari¢é 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 (continued on back flap) oar pe Gi eR => ns 2 Digitized by the Internet Archive In 2021 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/alberteinsteinmi0000eins Albert Einstein Mileva Marié The Love Letters Albert Einstein Mileva Maric Br The Love Letters EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JORGEN RENN AND ROBERT SCHULMANN TRANSLATED BY SHAWN SMITH PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Copyright © 1992 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Oxford All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955. [Correspondence. English. Selections] Albert Einstein/Mileva Marié—the love letters / with an introduction by Jiirgen Renn and Robert Schulmann ; translated from the German by Shawn Smith. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-691-08760-1 1. Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955—-Correspondence. 2. Einstein-Marié, Mileva, 1875—1948—Correspondence. 3. Physicists—Correspondence. I. Einstein—Mari¢, Mileva, 1875-1948. II. Renn, Jiirgen, 1956— . I. Schulmann, Robert J., 1942—.IV. Smith, Shawn, 1968-. V. Title. VI. Title: Love letters. QC16.E5A4 1992 530”.092—dc20 91-40183 This book has been composed in Adobe Times Roman Designed by Jan Lilly Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper, and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 352) )1

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