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In November 1881 Albert’s sister Maria – called Maja – was born.

A short time later the Einstein family went to Munich where Albert first attended elementary school and subsequently Luitpold grammar school. From 1909 to 1916 Albert Einstein worked on a generalisation of the special theory of relativity, the general theory of relativity.

When Albert’s grandmother saw him for the first time she is said to have cried continuously: “Much too thick! Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955.

ethelda bleibtrey biography of albert einstein

“Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny beginning of a paunch.
In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth …”

Albert Einstein, 1920

BIOGRAPHY

Albert Einstein was born as the first child of the Jewish couple Hermann and Pauline Einstein, nee Koch, in Ulm on March 14, 1879.

She was often in the news for incidents related to swimming and in 1919 only public opinion prevented her from being jailed for swimming “nude.” She had merely removed her stockings before going for a swim at Manhattan Beach, but in 1919 this was considered “nudity.”

In 1928 she did spend a night in jail after swimming in the Central Park Reservoir, but Mayor Jimmy Walker quickly intervened and New York got its first large swimming pool, which was the original object of the publicity stunt.

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Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2024). After her are Jesús Bermúdez, Edward Condon, Nils Rosén, Princess Sophie of Luxembourg, Johan Borgen, and Myrtle Cook. In his leisure time he worked in the area of theoretical physics. He was 76 years old.

Illustrations Credits:
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ETH-Bibliothek, Zurich: 2
Archive of the author: 3
Albert Einstein-Society, Bern: 4

Bibliography:

Albrecht FölsingAlbert EinsteinFrankfurt on the Main 1993
Philipp FrankEinstein.

For the year 1921 he received the Nobel Prize for Physics.

When the 12-year-old Eduard asked his father why he was so famous he got the answer:

quoted in Max Flückiger, Albert Einstein in Bern, Bern 1974

Through the political situation in Nazi Germany Einstein left the country in December 1932 and never again entered German ground.

Among people deceased in 1978, Ethelda Bleibtrey ranks 184. Until his last breath he worked on a new theory, the unified field theory, which however was not successful. In December 1936 Einstein’s wife Elsa died. In 1946 he proposed a world government in which he saw the only way to achieve continuous peace.

Einstein spent the last years of his life reclusively in Princeton.

After her are Helen Murray Free (1923), Larry Brown (1940), Bitsie Tulloch (1981), Randy Johnson (1963), William Roth (1921), and Hoagy Carmichael (1899).

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Among swimmers born in United States, Ethelda Bleibtrey ranks 35.

After her are Murray Rose, Tetsuo Okamoto, Irene Guest, Chris von Saltza, Norman Ross, and Ian Thorpe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Ethelda Bleibtrey ranks 237. Because of his fear that Germany was working on atomic bombs he wrote a letter to Franklin D.

Roosevelt, the president of the United States of America, to tell him about the possibility of atomic weapons. There was hardly any magazine which did not report about him and praise his work to the skies. From 1933 Einstein and his family lived in Princeton, USA. At the “Institute for Advanced Study” he found ideal working conditions.

When he turned 15 he left school without any degree and followed his family to Milan. Before her are Sandy Neilson, Edgar Adams, Tini Wagner, Georg Zacharias, Adelaide Lambert, and John Devitt.