Academy Olympia
As Olympic Academy designated Albert Einstein , Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht their nightly meetings in Bern in the years 1901 bis 1904 .
The meetings came about after Einstein had searched for students with a newspaper advertisement during his probationary period at the Bern patent office. Then the philosophy student Maurice Solovine got in touch. Interesting conversations took place between the two of them, which continued; a little later mathematician Conrad Habicht took part.
The meetings began with a dinner, after which works on various topics were read and discussed in this group. Not only scientific papers were discussed, literary and current topics were also on the agenda.
Einstein, in whose apartment most of the meetings took place, received the title "Albert Ritter von Steißbein, President of the Olympia Academy" from Habicht. In Einstein's own words, the Olympia Academy had promoted his academic career. Occasionally other acquaintances such as Paul Habicht and Lucien Chavan as well as Einstein's first wife, Mileva Marić , also took part in the discussion.
The meetings ended after Conrad Habicht left Bern in 1904 and Maurice Solovine in 1905. The three interlocutors remained in friendly contact for life.
literature
- Jürgen Neffe: Einstein. A biography . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2006
- Maurice Solovine: Friendship with Albert Einstein . In: Physical sheets . 15 (1959), 3, pp. 97-103
Web links
- Hans-Josef Küpper: Academy Olympia , at Einstein.de