Who Were Albert Einstein's Children? Know About All The Descendants!
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Albert Einstein, one of the greatest physicists of all time, has had one of the most interesting lives in history.
His scientific achievements stand among the pantheon of the greatest scientists and their accomplishments; but not as much is known about the descendants of Albert Einstein.
If you’re wondering about the living descendants of Albert Einstein then you’ll be glad to know that Einstein has grandchildren who are still alive! Although their ancestor came from a relatively wealthy family, the Einstein family members haven’t received their share of inheritance.
Einstein's parents were Pauline Einstein (1858-1920) and Hermann Einstein (1847-1902); Albert Einstein also had an uncle, Jakob Einstein, who was a business partner to Hermann.
Albert Einstein married Mileva Maric in 1903. Einstein’s second wife, Elsa, was also his cousin. They married in 1919.
Albert Einstein's Children's Names
Did you know that Albert Einstein is listed as one of the founders of the Hebrew University in Israel?
Albert Einstein also had a connection to Princeton, as he lectured there the year before he was awarded the Nobel Prize For Physics, in 1921, and later accepted a position at Princeton in 1932.
Albert Einstein had three children with his first wife, Mileva Maric, who was a Serbian physicist; Hans Albert, Eduard, and Lieserl Einstein.
Mileva Maric (daughter of Milos Maric and Marija Ruzic-Maric) was born on December 19, 1875, in Austria-Hungary (today Serbia).
She belonged to a wealthy family and prioritized her studies for her future. There is a lot of debate as to whether Mileva had some contribution to the research that was carried out by Albert Einstein.
One of the most common theories is that Mileva told a Serbian friend in 1905 that she accomplished some important work with Albert that would make him world-famous!
His second wife, Elsa Einstein, was born on 18 January, 1876, in Hechingen, the daughter of Rudolf Einstein and Fanny Einstein.
Elsa already had two children before she began dating Albert, Margot and Ilse, with her first husband. Elsa’s daughters were raised by Albert as his own.
Elsa and Albert’s family was very close-knit and they migrated to Princeton together.
During the final days of Elsa's life, Albert tried to focus on his work to distract himself from the harsh reality that Elsa was dying.
Elsa Einstein died in Albert Einstein's Princeton home due to heart and liver problems. Not much is known about Albert’s stepdaughters.
What happened to Einstein's daughter, Lieserl?
Albert Einstein was known to be a loving father to the two stepdaughters that he had with his second wife. It is said that they were very close. But, the relationship between Albert and his first-born daughter is shrouded in mystery.
Little is known about Albert Einstein’s daughter, Lieserl Einstein, that he had with his first wife, Mileva Maric.
One thing that is certain is that Lieserl was born in January of 1902 with some disabilities. Sadly, she passed away in September of 1903 due to scarlet fever.
In her book, 'Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserl', author Michele Zikhaeim theorized that Einstein sent Lieserl to stay with Mileva Maric’s relatives before they were married.
Even after they tied the knot, Einstein refused to accept his daughter and refused to acknowledge her existence in his life!
There was a letter from September 19, 1903, that was delivered from Einstein to Maric that mentioned Lieserl for the last time.
Albert Einstein’s Children
Albert Einstein has a special connection to Berlin, Germany, as he was offered a top academic position at the Prussian Academy of Sciences along with a Professorship at Berlin's Humboldt University.
His two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein, came to Berlin to join their father.
It is interesting to study the dynamics that the sons shared with their father. Being the children of a world-famous scientist must have been hard to negotiate for them and they subsequently found ways to deal with the effects of their father's fame.
Hans Albert Einstein was an engineer by profession who was born on May 14, 1904. He was also a long-time professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Hans Albert’s first marriage was with Frieda Knecht, whom Albert strongly disapproved of. They were together until her death in 1958.
They had four children together: Bernhard Caesar, Klaus Martin, David, and daughter Evelyn Einstein, who was adopted.
Evelyn pursued a Master’s degree from the same college in which her father was a professor, at the University of California.
After the death of his first wife, Hans Albert Einstein married Elizabeth Roboz.
His friends remember Hans Albert Einstein as an avid sailor, and a keen musician, who played the flute and the piano.
Albert’s second son, Eduard Einstein, had a strained relationship with his father.
Eduard was a schizophrenic who was considered to be an unsolvable problem by Einstein. Eduard spent nearly three decades in an asylum trying to get better.
Eduard tried to cope with the fame that his father had garnered but he found it difficult, commenting that he felt unimportant.
During the time the Nazis took power in Germany, Albert Einstein had to flee the country without his younger son, leaving him confined to an asylum as he was too feeble to accompany his family.
Son Hans Albert Wrote Many Books
New York is home to the prestigious Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx area. It is considered to be one of the best medical schools in the country.
In 1933, when Einstein fled Germany, he came to Princeton, New Jersey, where he joined the Institute for Advanced Study. He lived there for 22 years until his death.
There have been tons of books that have been written about Albert Einstein and his works that revolutionized society.
Hans Albert, who was very well known for his work on sediment transport, wrote a few research books that can be read today as well.
The famous books of Hans Albert include 'Bed-Load Transportation in Mountain Creek' (1944), 'Determination of Rates of Bed-Load Movement' (1948), 'Analysis of Factors Influencing Cotton Yields and Their Variability: With Special Reference to Upper Piedmont and West Texas Rolling Plains' (1950), 'The Bed-Load Function for Sediment Transportation in Open Channel Flows' (1951), 'Second Approximation to the Solution of the Suspended Load Theory' (1952) and 'Transport of Sediment Mixtures with Large Ranges of Grain Sizes' (1953).
These are very in-depth in their analysis of sediment transport which is why Hans Albert became famous in his own right.
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